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The building was commissioned by the now defunct Southampton City Primary Care Trust, and the Trust leases the space for £1.5m per annum on a 25-year contract. [ 2 ] In February 2014 Dr Ros Tolcher announced she would be leaving her post at the Trust to take up a new role as chief executive at Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust . [ 3 ]
The hospital was founded in 1900 as the Southampton Union Infirmary in Shirley Warren, Southampton, to replace hospital beds previously provided at the workhouse infirmary in St Mary's, Southampton. The original building, housing 289 beds, cost £64,800 to construct; it has since been demolished. [ 5 ]
Lee-on-The Solent to Itchen Estuary is a 585.9-hectare (1,448-acre) biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest which stretches along the coast between Southampton and Gosport in Hampshire. [1] [2] It is a Geological Conservation Review site.
On 31 March 2007 management of the hospital was passed to Southampton City Primary Care Trust with several services transferring to Southampton General Hospital and the Princess Anne Hospital. In 2010 the psychiatry block was closed and a new adult mental health unit called Antelope House was opened, housing 50 acute beds and 12 psychiatric ...
Southampton Corporation acquired the passenger ship, City of Adelaide, and moored it just off Millbrook Point to provide further isolation facilities in 1893. [1] At a meeting of the Local Board of Health later that year, concern was expressed about the ship being anchored off the point where children played on the beach.
FALL RIVER — Primo on Water Street is not yet open, but the Italian-American restaurant and event venue has already begun making waves along the city's waterfront. Now owners Shannon Raposo and ...
Most of Portsmouth is located on Portsea Island, off the south coast of England in the Solent, making Portsmouth the only city in England not located primarily on the mainland. The city is located 22 miles (35 km) south-east of Southampton, 50 miles (80 km) west of Brighton and Hove and 74 miles (119 km) south-west of London.
View of the Solent from Gurnard, near Cowes, Isle of Wight The Solent from Wootton, Isle of Wight, showing Wightlink Fishbourne–Portsmouth ferries crossing.. The Solent (/ ˈ s oʊ l ən t / SOH-lənt) is a strait between the Isle of Wight and mainland Great Britain; the major historic ports of Southampton and Portsmouth lie inland of its shores.