Harold Wood Hospital Mortuary - Havering - Dec 08

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The hospital was opened in 1909 by West Ham County Borough council, as the Grange convalescent home for children, which operated with the nearby Plaistow fever hospital. The Grange had been a private house, built in 1884 by John Compton, owner of the Gubbins estate. The convalescent home was maintained by the county borough until the Second World War, as an emergency hospital. After the war it became a permanent hospital, and in the 1960s was significantly enlarged.
It is up for redevelopment now.

I visited with the aim of seeing one part of the hospital as time was against me - the mortuary.


a distant shot of the 1960's block


in the reception area

more reception area


wandering through from there -
a lot of fridges





a cold bed


maybe a filing system for whats in the fridges?

















maybe a bit morbid !!