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Greenwich Hospital may refer to: Greenwich Hospital, London , which was a home for retired Royal Navy sailors 1692–1869, operated by the Greenwich Hospital charitable foundation Greenwich District Hospital , a hospital in London from 1970 to 2001
Its buildings, initially Greenwich Palace, in Greenwich, London, were later used by the Royal Naval College, Greenwich and the University of Greenwich, and are now known as the Old Royal Naval College. The word "hospital" was used in its original sense of a place providing hospitality for those in need of it, and did not refer to medical care ...
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The hospital had its origins in St Alfege's Hospital in Greenwich which by the 1960s was in need of replacement. [1] In order to build a hospital with a large enough capacity for the requirements of the local population (up to 800 beds) on a small site (less than 8 acres), a single large building was designed - Pevsner described it as "an unusually large enterprise to be undertaken by the ...
The Inigo Jones-designed Queen's House is in the centre of the painting with the Royal Observatory also visible on the hill in Greenwich Park. [2] It may have been produced for the art collector and British consul in Venice Joseph Smith for his residence on the Grand Canal. Canaletto also produced two other views of Greenwich Hospital.
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The Miller General Hospital was a hospital in Greenwich, London from 1884 until 1974. It was developed adjacent to an earlier dispensary , and was the first British hospital designed with circular wards, and one of the first to have an X-ray department.
1882 map of part of east Greenwich, showing workhouse. The hospital developed from an infirmary created for the Greenwich and Deptford workhouse, which opened in 1840 on a site on the east side of Vanbrugh Hill, south of its junction with Woolwich Road; the architect, Robert Palmer Browne (1803-1872), later described his design as "plain but cheerful and almslike". [2]