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Boston, Cottage Hospital
Boston, Cottage Hospital
Boston, Cottage Hospital

Boston Cottage Hospital was built in 1874 for those suffering from accidents or curable diseases.

The 33-acre "Peoples Park" was given to the people of Boston by the Corporation in 1871. W. H. Wheeler laid out pleasure gardens planted with trees and shrubs.

Football, cricket and other sports were played there.

Postcard posted in 1909

Boston, cottage hospital, People's Park, W H Wheeler
Boston, Cottage Hospital
Boston, Cottage Hospital
Boston, Cottage Hospital
Photograph from the 'Boston Album of Views', c.1900
Boston, hospital recreation ground
Boston, General Hospital
Boston, General Hospital
Boston, General Hospital

The former Boston General Hospital was situated on South End and established in 1871 in temporary premises as the Boston Cottage Hospital.

A new building was erected in 1874 and subsequently extended on several occasions.

The name was changed to Boston Hospital, c1887, and Boston General Hospital, c1937.

The Hospital was replaced by the new Boston Pilgrim Hospital, opened in 1971.

Photo dated 1958

Boston, General Hospital, Pilgrim Hospital
Boston, Holland House
Boston, Holland House
Boston, Holland House

"House, [on Wide Bargate] used C19 as a boarding school, now a dental surgery. Late C18, with minor C20 alterations"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1389059 

DB 21 May 2019 

Boston, Holland House, Wide Bargate
Boston, Pilgrim Hospital
Boston, Pilgrim Hospital
Boston, Pilgrim Hospital

The text beside the hospital's name reads :-

"This name plaque was unveiled on the 11th of June 1968 by the Right Honourable the Earl of Ancaster TD. Lord Lieutenant of the County of Lincoln to mark the beginning of construction of Pilgrim Hospital.

Sir Albert Martin CBE Chairman Sheffield Regional Hospital Board.

DM Thomas Esq MA Chairman Boston Group Hospital Management Committee" 

DB 3 August 2019

Boston, Pilgrim Hospital
Boston, Pilgrim Hospital
Boston, Pilgrim Hospital
Boston, Pilgrim Hospital

Pilgim Hospital viewed from the tower of Boston Stump.

DB 14 March 2022

Boston, Pilgrim Hospital
Boston, Woodlands Court
Boston, Woodlands Court
Boston, Woodlands Court

A home for the "aged sick".

photo dated 1958

Boston, Woodland Court, aged sick
Bracebridge Heath, St John's Hospital, Main Building
Bracebridge Heath, St John's Hospital, Main Building
Bracebridge Heath, St John's Hospital, Main Building

The hospital at Bracebridge Heath opened as the County Pauper Lunatic Asylum in 1852.

Designed in Italienate style, the huge complex of buildings could accommodate 250 patients, and was set in extensive grounds, which included gardens, a cemetery and a 30 acre farm worked by the inmates.

St John's Hospital, as it was finally known, remained in use until 1989.  Seen here is the central block, which after standing empty for many years may yet be converted to apartments.

Postcard, 1904

Bracebridge Heath, lunatic asylum, St John Hospital
Bracebridge Heath, St John's Hospital, Main Building
Bracebridge Heath, St John's Hospital, Main Building
Bracebridge Heath, St John's Hospital, Main Building

A small part of the Main Building which has been redeveloped - viewed from Caistor Drive.

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"The Lindsey and Holland Counties and Lincoln and Grimsby District Lunatic Asylum, situated on an eminence in this parish, on the high road to Sleaford, and erected in 1852, is a building in the Italian style, enlarged in 1859, 1866, 1881, 1902 and 1917:

the estate consists of 120 acres, cultivated chiefly by the spade husbandry of the inmates; the sewage is disposed of by irrigation over 10 acres of land about half a mile from the asylum, quite inoffensively and profitably:

the recreation grounds, which are tastefully laid out with flower beds, shrubs and trees, occupy about six acres:

a new chapel was erected in 1869 and will seat 450; there is also a cemetery of two acres, with a mortuary chapel.

H. Hickling esq. of Louth, is chairman of the committee of visitors; A.H.L. Melville, treasurer; H. E. Page, Bank street, Lincoln, clerk to the visitors; Thomas Leonard Johnston L.R.C.P. & S.Edin. medical superintendent; Rev. Alexander George Trimble M.A. chaplain"

DB 25 February 2019

Bracebridge Heath, St John's Hospital,
Bracebridge Heath, St John's Hospital, Main Building
Bracebridge Heath, St John's Hospital, Main Building
Bracebridge Heath, St John's Hospital, Main Building

Much of the Main Building is in poor condition having lain empty since the hospital closed in 1989.

"The hospital was designed by John Hamilton and James Medland in the Italianate style as the Lincolnshire County Lunatic Asylum and opened in 1852.

It became Bracebridge Pauper Lunatic Asylum in 1898 and Bracebridge Mental Hospital in 1919.

It served as an Emergency Hospital during the Second World War and, having been renamed Bracebridge Heath Hospital in 1939, joined the National Health Service in 1948.

It went on to become St John's Hospital, Bracebridge Heath in 1961"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_John%27s_Hospital,_Bracebridge_Heath 

DB 20 February 2019

Bracebridge Heath, St John's Hospital, Main Building
Bracebridge Heath, St John's Hospital, Main Building
Bracebridge Heath, St John's Hospital, Main Building
Bracebridge Heath, St John's Hospital, Main Building

White's History, Gazetteer And Directory Of Lincolnshire 1872 states :- 

"LINCOLNSHIRE COUNTY PAUPER LUNATIC ASYLUM is an extensive establishment pleasantly situated in Bracebridge heath, two miles South of Lincoln, on an elevated and healthy site near the high road to Sleaford.

The institution was opened in 1852 for 250 patients, since which considerable additions have been made, and it has now room for upwards of 600.

The plan and arrangements of this large asylum are in accordance with the most approved modern systems.

Attached to it are about 120 acres of land.

The building, which is plain Italian throughout, occupies with the court and airing grounds seven acres; about eight acres more are occupied by gardens, lawns, plantations, and roads; thus leaving about 105 acres for the farm, which is partly cultivated by spade husbandry, and gives healthy employment to a large number of male patients.

In 1870, the average number of patients was 582, consisting of 280 males, and 302 females.

Many of the latter are employed in the laundry, kitchen, needlework, &c.

A new detached chapel, containing 450 sittings, was consecrated by the Bishop of Lincoln, in 1869, and the original chapel appropriated to a recreation hall, in which the patients have weekly entertainments.

One of the most agreeable features of the asylum is the excellent manner in which the airing grounds are planted and laid; the flower beds, which are carefully kept and well stocked with bright and gay flowers, have a most cheerful aspect, which cannot but be gratifying and beneficial to the patients ..."

DB 25 February 2019

Bracebridge Heath, St John's Hospital, Main Building
Bracebridge Heath, St John's Hospital, The Homestead
Bracebridge Heath, St John's Hospital, The Homestead
Bracebridge Heath, St John's Hospital, The Homestead

"Former Medical Superintendents House, recently used as offices. 1902 by A. E. Gough. In the Italianate style"

"Built as part of St John's Hospital"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360602 

Now The Homestead pub/restaurant. 

DB 20 February 2019

Bracebridge Heath, St John's Hospital, The Homestead, Medical Superintendent
Dry Doddington, Telephone Kiosk, Type KX300
Dry Doddington, Telephone Kiosk, Type KX300
Dry Doddington, Telephone Kiosk, Type KX300

Former telephone kiosk next to the Wheatsheaf Inn.

Now used to house defibrillator.

DB 5 September 2018

Dry Doddington, Telephone Kiosk, KX300, defibrillator
Gainsborough, John Coupland Hospital, Ropery Road
Gainsborough, John Coupland Hospital, Ropery Road
Gainsborough, John Coupland Hospital, Ropery Road

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"The "John Coupland" Memorial Hospital, in Ropery road, is a building of brick with stone dressings in the Georgian style, and was erected in 1912-13 at a cost, including the site, of about £16,000, which was the gift of the late George Coupland esq. of Hemswell, Lincoln.

The building provides for 36 patients, and includes male and female wards, a children's ward and several private wards; there are also a detached laundry and lodge.

The hospital is vested in three trustees with power to form a board of governors"

DB 23 April 2019

Gainsborough, John Coupland Hospital
Grantham, Hospital
Grantham, Hospital
Grantham, Hospital

The hospital on Manthorpe Road was opened by Countess Brownlow on 5 January 1876. It had cost over £5,000 and Lady Brownlow had laid the foundation stone on 29 October 1874 no doubt because the land on which it stood had been donated by her husband.

The central block of two storeys included an operating room, kitchen and offices and four bedrooms on the first floor. Wings on either side formed the wards for male and female patients.

A five-bed fever ward and the laundry stood separately to the rear. The building shown in the post-card has stood unused for several years.

postcard by Whipple of Grantham, 1903

Grantham, hospital, Lady Brownlow, Manthorpe Road
Grantham, Hospital
Grantham, Hospital
Grantham, Hospital

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"The Grantham Hospital, for in-patients only, on the Manthorpe road, about half a mile north of the town, is a building of stone in the Gothic style, erected in 1874-5, at a cost of £5,000, on a site given by Right Hon. the Earl Brownlow, and was opened by Lady Brownlow in January, 1875:

the building contains twenty-eight beds in the main block and an isolation ward:

in 1888 a children's ward was erected by subscription at a cost of £500, and in 1907-8 extensions and improvements were made at a cost of over £1,800:

since 1883, patients except in certain specified cases, have been admitted free of charge"

Building is currently in very poor condition and has been surrounded by temporary fencing to keep people out. 

DB 4 May 2019

Grantham, Hospital
Grantham, Malting / Dental Practice, Commercial Road
Grantham, Malting / Dental Practice, Commercial Road
Grantham, Malting / Dental Practice, Commercial Road

One of several malthouses between Commercial Road and Brewery Hill shown on the OS 25 inch map published 1888.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malt_house 

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire mentions

"Haynes Thomas, maltster, Commercial road"

"Lee & Grinling, maltsters, Brewery hill; Springfield rd. ; Bridge End road; Welham street & Gonerby Hill foot"

"Mowbray & Co. Limited, brewers & maltsters & mineral water manufacturers, Commercial road & London road & wine, spirit & cigar merchants, Finkin street" 

Now a dental practice. 

DB 3 June 2019

Grantham, Malting, Dental Practice, Commercial Road
Grimsby, Hospital
Grimsby, Hospital
Grimsby, Hospital

The hospital shown opened in 1877 on a site in the West Marsh area of Grimsby.

A new ward was built in 1885, the first of many such additions.  By 1910, an X-ray department had been established.

The hospital continued to adapt, serving the people of Grimsby, Cleethorpes and surrounding area until 1983, when the new Diana Princess of Wales hospital opened in the south of the town.

The old buildings were subsequently demolished to make way for housing.

Postcard, 1905

See: Grimsby: Making the Town  by Alan Dowling

Grimsby, hospital, West Marsh
Harmston Hall
Harmston Hall
Harmston Hall

Built 1710 for Sir George Thorold who was Lord Major of London 1719-20.

Estate sold 1898 to Nathaniel Clayton Cockburn, a grandson of Nathaniel Clayton, the Lincoln iron founder. 

Bought by the Lincolnshire Joint Board for the Mentally Defective, who opened it in 1935 as a 'Colony for Mental Defectives'.

Hospital closed in 1989 and is now a private residence.

http://parishes.lincolnshire.gov.uk/Files/Parish/829/Historical_Information.pdf 

DB 3 April 2018

Harmston, Hall, Sir George Thorold, Clayton, Lincolnshire Joint Board for the Mentally Defective
Horncastle, Old Dispensary
Horncastle, Old Dispensary
Horncastle, Old Dispensary

This Dispensary was opened in 1789 and offered 'Medical aid to the Poor'.

It was one of the first such establishments in Lincolnshire and was sponsored by Sir Joseph Banks. It was in use until 1866.

O.S. Grid Ref. TF25851 69508

Kathy Holland, 2013

Horncastle, dispensary, Joseph Banks
Horncastle, War Memorial Hospital & Dispensary
Horncastle, War Memorial Hospital & Dispensary
Horncastle, War Memorial Hospital & Dispensary

"Public dispensary with attached railings and gate, converted to cottage hospital. 1866 converted 1924.

Designed by Bellamy & Hardy of Lincoln. White brick with ashlar and red brick dressings"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1386198

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1937 states :-

"Horncastle War Memorial Hospital & Dispensary, 52 North street ; G. H. Sanderson M.B., M.R.C.S. L.R.C.P., A. C. Greenwood M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., G. W. Armour M.B., Ch.B. & J. V. Buchanan M.B., Ch.B. medical officers; Miss A. Hughes, matron; Edward Byron, sec"

DB 18 July 2019 

Horncastle, War Memorial Hospital, Dispensary
Horncastle, War Memorial Hospital & Dispensary
Horncastle, War Memorial Hospital & Dispensary
Horncastle, War Memorial Hospital & Dispensary

"PUBLIC DISPENSARY ESTABLISHED 1789 BY EDWD HARRISON MD

PATRON SIR JOSEPH BANKS KT THIS BUILDING WAS ERECTED 1866 IN MEMORY OF SIR HY DYMOKE BART A GENEROUS SUPPORTER OF THIS INSTITUTION"

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states 

"The Dispensary, first established in 1789 by the late Drs. Harrison and Fawssett, and now opposite the Court House in North street, is a structure of white brick, with stone dressings, built in 1866 as a memorial to the late Sir Henry Dymoke bart.

It is supported by donations and subscriptions, and by collections made at places of worship in the town and surrounding district; the average number of patients is about 450.

There is a small Hospital for Infectious Diseases on the Spilsby road, under the control of the Urban District Council"

Also

"Horncastle Public Dispensary, 52 North street, A. Guy Hunter esq. treasurer; Herbert Arthur Howes L.R.C.P. & S.Edin. & Arthur Boulton M.R.C.S.Eng. medical officers; Wm, Betts, resident dispenser & sec"

DB 18 July 2019 

Horncastle, War Memorial Hospital & Dispensary
Horncastle, War Memorial Hospital & Dispensary
Horncastle, War Memorial Hospital & Dispensary
Horncastle, War Memorial Hospital & Dispensary

Became a War Memorial Hospital following its conversion from a public dispensary in 1924.

Two dedicatory plaques located just inside the entrance.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/20409 

DB 18 July 2019

Horncastle, War Memorial Hospital & Dispensary
Horncastle, War Memorial Hospital & Dispensary
Horncastle, War Memorial Hospital & Dispensary
Horncastle, War Memorial Hospital & Dispensary

One of two dedicatory plaques located just inside the entrance :-

"IN MEMORY OF THE GLORIOUS DEAD BELONGING TO THE PARISH OF HORNCASTLE WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1918"

The other plaque reads :-

"IN MEMORY OF THE GLORIOUS DEAD BELONGING TO HORNCASTLE WHO FELL IN THE 1939/45 WAR"

DB 18 July 2019 


Horncastle, War Memorial Hospital & Dispensary
Laceby, GP Surgery
Laceby, GP Surgery
Laceby, GP Surgery

GP Surgery at 6 Caistor Road. 

"House. Early-mid C19 with later alterations, including re-roofing"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1103501

DB 8 February 2020

Laceby, GP Surgery
Laceby, GP Surgery
Laceby, GP Surgery
Laceby, GP Surgery

Doctor's nameplates outside 6 Caistor Road. 

DB 8 February 2020

Laceby, GP Surgery
Lincoln, Chad Varah House (Former Hospital then Theological College)
Lincoln, Chad Varah House (Former Hospital then Theological College)
Lincoln, Chad Varah House (Former Hospital then Theological College)

"Former County Hospital, now a theological college. 1776-77, by John Carr of York and William Lumby. Chapel 1906, by Temple Moore"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1388510 

Recently converted into private accommodation 

DB 20 January 2020

Lincoln, Chad Varah House, Theological College, County Hospital
Lincoln, County Hospital
Lincoln, County Hospital
Lincoln, County Hospital

The Directory of the City of Lincoln 1901 published by J.W.Ruddock states :-

"County Hospital, Sewell road, Established 1769. In-patients, 1,081; out-patients, 1,280; 124 beds.

President, The Right Hon. The Earl Brownlow; Treasurer, Coningsby Chas. Sibthorp, Esq.; Physicians, Charles Harrison and J. Stitt-Thomson; Consulting Surgeons, Charles Brook and W. J. Cant; Surgeons, W. A. Carline, E. Mansel Sympson, and W. H. B. Brook ; House-Surgeon, E. W. Woodbridge; Assist- House-Surgeon, W. B. Thomson; Chaplain, Rev. Sub-dean Leeke; Secretary, W. B. Danby; Matron, Miss M. E. Ray"

Postcard by Boots Cash Chemists "Pelham" Series No. 289 postmarked April 8th 1908

Lincoln County Hospital
Lincoln, Lincoln School, WW1 Hospital
Lincoln, Lincoln School, WW1 Hospital
Lincoln, Lincoln School, WW1 Hospital

The 4th Northern General Hospital was set up in Lincoln School on Wragby Road at the beginning of World War I in August 1914.

By early October, the hospital cared for over 200 wounded Belgian soldiers. Many of the wards were in wooden buildings which had been quickly erected on the school playing field.

The school itself was housed in temporary classrooms at the junction of St Anne's Road and Sewell Road.

Undated postcard

Lincoln School, Wragby Road, World War I, Northern General Hospital,
Lincoln, St Anne's Bedehouses
Lincoln, St Anne's Bedehouses
Lincoln, St Anne's Bedehouses
St Anne's Bedehouses in Lincoln were founded in 1847 (completed 1854) by Richard Waldo Sibthorp and include work by both A W N Pugin and William Butterfield.
Buildings, St Anne's Bedehouse, Richard Waldo Sibthorp, A W N Pugin, William Butterfield
Lincoln, The Lawn
Lincoln, The Lawn
Lincoln, The Lawn

South elevation of the asylum built in 1820.

Pearl Wheatley, 2012

Buildings, The Lawn
Louth, Crowtree Lane Hospital
Louth, Crowtree Lane Hospital
Louth, Crowtree Lane Hospital

Crowtree Lane Hospital was built in 1873 at a cost of £2000 to replace the dispensary in New Street.

After the former workhouse on High Holme Road was developed as the main hospital for the town in 1938, Crowtree Lane dealt with maternity patients only.

It is now part of King Edward VI School.

Ken Redmore, 2006

Louth, Crowtree Lane Hospital,
Louth, Workhouse
Louth, Workhouse
Louth, Workhouse

The workhouse, now part of Louth Hospital, was built for the new Poor Law Union in 1837-9 to a design by George Gilbert Scott.

It had accommodation for 300 paupers and cost £6,000.

Pearl Wheatley, 2012

Louth, Workhouse, George Gilbert Scott
Louth, Workhouse (Now Louth County Hospital), High Holme Road
Louth, Workhouse (Now Louth County Hospital), High Holme Road
Louth, Workhouse (Now Louth County Hospital), High Holme Road

"Workhouse, now hospital. 1837-39 with later additions.

Designed by George Gilbert Scott for the Louth Poor Law Union"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1386583 

DB 18 April 2019

Louth, Workhouse, County Hospital, George Gilbert Scott
Louth, Workhouse (Now Louth County Hospital), High Holme Road
Louth, Workhouse (Now Louth County Hospital), High Holme Road
Louth, Workhouse (Now Louth County Hospital), High Holme Road

White's Directory of Lincolnshire 1856 states :-

"LOUTH UNION, as formed by the New Poor Law Commissioners, in 1837, comprises 86 parishes, which extend over 107,708 acres of land, and had 33,427 inhabitants in 1851, but only 25,214 in 1831.

In 1851, there were in the union 184 persons above 80 years of age, 57 above 85, and 14 above 90.

The total expenditure of the union for the support of the poor in 1838 was £12,410, and in 1839, £10,969.

The total expenditure of the union in 1855 was £17,826, including £1102 for in-door relief; £10,181, out-door relief; £1274, salaries, &c., of officers; £2211 for county rates; and about £2600 for various incidental expenses, constables' expenses, registration fees, &c.

The UNION WORKHOUSE stands in a pleasant situation on the north side of the town, at the head of Broad bank, and is an extensive brick building, erected in 1837, at the cost of about £6000.

It has room for 300 paupers, and had 132 inmates in 1841, and 179 in 1851, when the census was taken. 

The BOARD OF GUARDIANS meets every Monday, and comprises 86 guardians, elected yearly.

DB 18 April 2019

Louth, Workhouse, County Hospital
Louth, Workhouse Entrance Range, High Holme Road
Louth, Workhouse Entrance Range, High Holme Road
Louth, Workhouse Entrance Range, High Holme Road

"Workhouse entrance range, now hospital. 1837-39, with later additions.

Designed by George Gilbert Scott"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1386584 

DB 18 April 2019

Louth, Workhouse Entrance Range, County Hospital
Louth, Workhouse Entrance Range, High Holme Road
Louth, Workhouse Entrance Range, High Holme Road
Louth, Workhouse Entrance Range, High Holme Road

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"The Workhouse, in High Holme road, is a large brick building, pleasantly situated on the north side of the town, & erected in I837, at a cost of £6000:

it will hold 350 inmates; Rev. Charles Henry Lenton M.A. chaplain; Frank Laughton Smith M. D. medical officer; James Fielding, master; Mrs. Alice Fielding, matron; Miss Mary Sophia Ayre, industrial trainer"

DB 18 April 2019

Louth, Workhouse, Entrance Range, Louth, County Hospital
Mablethorpe, Convalescent Home
Mablethorpe, Convalescent Home
Mablethorpe, Convalescent Home

James Fowler, architect of Louth, designed this home close to the seafront for 53 patients with separate accommodation for males and females on a plan approved by Florence Nightingale.

The home opened in 1871 at a cost of £3800; it was demolished in the 1980s.

From original drawing by James Fowler


Mablethorpe, James Fowler, convalescent home
Nocton, RAF Hospital Nocton Hall, Water Tower
Nocton, RAF Hospital Nocton Hall, Water Tower
Nocton, RAF Hospital Nocton Hall, Water Tower

Reported by The Lincolnite that :- 

"The tower was constructed between 1944-45 as part of the American war effort's US 7th General Hospital.

It is one of four remaining examples in the UK and was in continuous use until 1995 when it was sold as part of the general sale of the hospital site"

https://thelincolnite.co.uk/2019/10/former-nocton-hospital-water-tower-could-become-quirky-home/ 

DB 2020 

Nocton, RAF Hospital Nocton hall, Water Tower, US 7th General Hospital, RAF
Quarrington, Rauceby Hospital (Greylees)
Quarrington, Rauceby Hospital (Greylees)
Quarrington, Rauceby Hospital (Greylees)

"Rauceby Hospital, originally called Kesteven County Asylum, is a now-defunct mental institution in the parish of Quarrington, Lincolnshire, England ...

The hospital was designed by George Thomas Hine using an "echelon layout".

Construction began in 1897 and it was officially opened as Kesteven County Asylum on 20 June 1902.

The gardens were designed under a separate contract by William Goldring ...

In 1940 the building was taken over by the Royal Air Force; renamed as No.4 RAF Hospital Rauceby, it became a crash and burns unit under the control of nearby RAF Cranwell ... 

After the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s, the hospital went through a period of decline and finally closed in December 1997.

The site was subsequently developed for residential use by David Wilson Homes as "Greylees"". 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rauceby_Hospital 

DB 20 August 2020 

Quarrington, Kesteven County Lunatic Asylum, Greylees, Rauceby Hospital
Quarrington, Rauceby Hospital (Greylees)
Quarrington, Rauceby Hospital (Greylees)
Quarrington, Rauceby Hospital (Greylees)

Main entrance building viewed from the north with adjacent buildings all now demolished.

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"The Kesteven County Asylum, erected 1899-1902 at a cost of about £130,000, is in this parish, and will hold 420 patients:

the buildings also include a chapel with sittings for about 300 persons.

John Alfred Ewan M.A. St.And., M.D. and C.M.Edin. medical superintendent; Rev. Benjamin James Shaul, chaplain; Thomas- Hinman Hildich, clerk to the visitors; William Norman Highsted, clerk and steward; Mrs. Annie Williams head nurse"

What remains of the main hospital buildings are surrounded by a fence and look to be in poor condition. 

DB 20 August 2020 

Quarrington, Kesteven County Lunatic Asylum, Greylees, Rauceby Hospital
Quarrington, Rauceby Hospital (Greylees)
Quarrington, Rauceby Hospital (Greylees)
Quarrington, Rauceby Hospital (Greylees)

Main entrance building viewed from the south.

DB 20 August 2020 

Quarrington, Kesteven County Lunatic Asylum, Greylees, Rauceby Hospital
Quarrington, Rauceby Hospital (Greylees)
Quarrington, Rauceby Hospital (Greylees)
Quarrington, Rauceby Hospital (Greylees)

"The gardens consist largely of a series of former airing courts for the patients' recreation.

Most of these lie to the west, south, and east of the pavilion wards, which open directly onto them.

To the south of the wards lie the two main, rectangular airing courts, these being laid to lawn and flanked by mature trees and flowering shrubs. Each contains a formal path system in cruciform pattern, surrounded by a perimeter path, at the centre of which stands an octagonal wood and iron shelter (supplied by the firm Boulton and Paul, 1902/03)"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1001471 

DB 20 August 2020 

Quarrington, Kesteven County Lunatic Asylum, Greylees, Rauceby Hospital
Quarrington, Rauceby Hospital Chapel  (Greylees)
Quarrington, Rauceby Hospital Chapel (Greylees)
Quarrington, Rauceby Hospital Chapel (Greylees)

"brick chapel (c 1900)"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1001471 

DB 20 August 2020 

Quarrington, Kesteven County Lunatic Asylum, Greylees, Rauceby Hospital, chapel
Quarrington, Rauceby Hospital Lodge
Quarrington, Rauceby Hospital Lodge
Quarrington, Rauceby Hospital Lodge

Lodge to the former Kesteven County Lunatic Asylum.

"The drive system was laid out 1901?2, to Goldring's plan, and the lodges were built at the same time to designs by G T Hine"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1001471  

National Grid Reference: TF037439

DB 20 August 2018

Quarrington, Greylees, Hospital, Lodge, Kesteven County Lunatic Asylum, G T Hine
Quarrington, Rauceby Isolation Hospital
Quarrington, Rauceby Isolation Hospital
Quarrington, Rauceby Isolation Hospital

Isolation Hospital associated with the former Kesteven County Lunatic Asylum.

"The former isolation unit, now known as Ash Villa, functions as a 12-bedded in-patient unit for age 12-18 years within the child and adolescent mental health services under the control of the Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rauceby_Hospital

"The Home Farm and isolation hospital were built on the west boundary at the same time as the main hospital building" ie 1899-1902.

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1001471 

DB 20 August 2018

Quarrington, Ash Villa, Rauceby Isolation Hospital, Greylees
Skegness, Carey House
Skegness, Carey House
Skegness, Carey House

The Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Convalescent Homes were established at Castle Donington for women (1883), and at Seathorne (Skegness) for men (1891) and children (1893).

In 1922 it was decided to close the children's home, sell the women's home, and acquire temporary premises in the Skegness area.

A new women's home, Carey House, was opened in Skegness in 1932.

The Convalescent Homes passed to the National Health Service in 1948.

photograph dated 1958

Skegness, Carey House convalescent home
Skegness, Holiday Camp
Skegness, Holiday Camp
Skegness, Holiday Camp

The Derbyshire Miners' Welfare Holiday Camp at Winthorpe to the north end of Skegness was opened in May 1939.

It was the first development of the type to be constructed in this country.

Undated postcard

Skegness, Derbyshire, Miners' Welfare Home,
Skegness, Hospital
Skegness, Hospital
Skegness, Hospital

Skegness Cottage Hospital - as it was originally known - was funded by public subscription and was officially opened on 19 May 1913.

The hospital was subsequently extended on several occasions. It was later known as the Skegness and District Hospital.

The Hospital passed to the National Health Service in 1948.

Illustration from 1913

Skegness, hospital operating theatre
Skegness, hospital staff
Skegness, hospital staff
Skegness, hospital staff
The staff of Skegness Hospital in 1948
Skegness, hospital staff
Sleaford, Laundon House Clinic
Sleaford, Laundon House Clinic
Sleaford, Laundon House Clinic

Former clinic awaiting sale when this image was taken.

Reported in the Sleaford Standard 24 September 2016 that "Laundon House Clinic in Sleaford set to close ... 

Sleaford historian Simon Pawley says it was built for Elston Law, one of the most important auctioneers in Sleaford from about the 1860s onwards and one of the people responsible for setting up Sleaford Cattle Market in 1874 (in his paddock in Northgate).

Mr Pawley said: "I think it dates from the late 1870s. Its original name was The Villa ...

By the late 1930s - maybe sooner - it became a private maternity home and the name Laundon House seems to get attached to it at that point. I think it became a public maternity home in the late 1940s, after the NHS was set up.

https://www.sleafordstandard.co.uk/news/laundon-house-clinic-sleaford-set-close-2130775 

DB 24 July 2018

Sleaford, Laundon House, Elston Law, clinic, maternity home
South Rauceby Hall, VAD Hospital
South Rauceby Hall, VAD Hospital
South Rauceby Hall, VAD Hospital

Rauceby Hall was used as a Voluntary Aid Detachment Hospital during WW1.

Unposted postcard by T. Upton of Sleaford

South Rauceby, hospital, VAD
Spilsby, Grace Swan Hospital
Spilsby, Grace Swan Hospital
Spilsby, Grace Swan Hospital

Grace Swan Memorial Cottage Hospital was built in 1902 with 25 beds shared between charity and fee-paying patients. Closed as a hospital in the 1990s it is now a health centre.

Undated postcard by Valentine's.

Spilsby, Grace Swan, hospital
Woodhall Spa, Alexandra Hospital
Woodhall Spa, Alexandra Hospital
Woodhall Spa, Alexandra Hospital

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1913 states :-

"Alexandra Bromo-Iodine Hospital, built at a cost of about £3,000, is a structure of red brick with stone facings, opened by the Countess Brownlow, 29 May, 1890, and enlarged in I894 by the addition of a new ward, named the "Clarence" ward.

The hospital will now hold 27 in-patients"

Taken over by the NHS in 1948 and continued to operate as a hospital until 1983. 

DB 2020

Woodhall Spa, Alexandra Hospital
Woodhall Spa, Baths
Woodhall Spa, Baths
Woodhall Spa, Baths

The spa well shaft collapsed September 1983 since when the baths have become derelict.

Kelly's Directory 1919 listed the baths available :-

"List of Baths Mineral, Nauhffim, Aix & Vichy Douche Massage, Sulphur, Pine, Electric Baths, Dowsing Radiant, Heat & Light Baths, Steam Vapour, Pulverisation & Nasal Douche, X Ray & other electrical treatments"

DB 12 September 2019

Woodhall Spa, Baths
Woodhall Spa, Baths
Woodhall Spa, Baths
Woodhall Spa, Baths

Derelict spa bath buildings viewed from public footpath at the rear.

DB 20 March 2019

Woodhall Spa, Baths
Woodhall Spa, Baths and Doctor's House
Woodhall Spa, Baths and Doctor's House
Woodhall Spa, Baths and Doctor's House

Thomas Hotchkin built the spa baths in the late 1830s after discovering health-giving iodine-rich water in a disused well. The well collapsed in 1983 and has been disused ever since.

Wrench series postcard sent from Dewsbury to Bardney in 1920.

 

Woodhall Spa, baths