From a No29 bus last month I snapped a few pics of the abandoned Temperance Hospital in Hampstead Road, NW1:
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| May 2015 |
This group of once-proud and important buildings has been empty for deacdes. I am pretty sure the hospital was only partly being used when I worked around the corner in Stephenson Way back in 1996, so that's almost 30 years of neglect. What a sad waste of space.
I was half-heartedly thinking about making an effort to do some research and, lo and behold, I discover that Caroline has conveniently done some sleuthing about the hospital for me.
Read it here.
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| These pics were taken in June 2008 – back then I was completely about the details and I didn't take wider archive shots – these four pics are all I have. |
The old
St Pancras Female Orphanage, the southernmost
of the hospital buildings has, in the last few years, been spruced up – and the ghosted lettering above the entrance has been repaired and replaced:
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| May 2015 |
The other buildings await the fate of HS2 –
see here for more info about the proposals, specifically the section sub-headed Euston.
UPDATE from kentishtowner: http://www.kentishtowner.co.uk/2015/11/04/national-temperance-hospital-back-business-jan/
