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Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital

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The hospital replaced a small hospital on Little Park Street which had opened in 1840. It employed three doctors for 12 beds in one ward. It became clear that this was not sufficient for the growing city, and in the 1860s fundraising began for a new purpose built general hospital. Construction began
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and dated from 1908 and 1909 respectively, were left standing. They remained empty and derelict for 13 years. In 2015 plans were submitted to convert these buildings into student accommodation, work on which began in 2019.
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contract was signed to build a new 'super hospital' on the site of Walsgrave Hospital to replace both that and Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital. Upon its opening in July 2006, both of the older hospitals closed.
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in 1948; until then it had been a voluntary institution. The hospital grew, and new buildings were added but its city centre site left it with little space to expand. In the 1960s a new hospital,
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After the closure of the hospital the post-war buildings were demolished and the site was used as a car park. However, the former nurses’ home and outpatients department, which were
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Brigade stretcher-bearers. All of the hospital's windows were shattered, and several buildings were ruined.
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The division of Coventry's medical services between two hospitals caused operational problems; in 2002 a
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One of the hospital buildings derelict in 2010, this has since been converted into student accommodation.
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13 amazing old photos of Coventry & Warwickshire Hospital
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departments, and provided laboratory services to both sites
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sited about 4 miles (6.4 km) north east of the centre.
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Coventry
Coordinates
52°24′46.5″N 1°30′26.3″W / 52.412917°N 1.507306°W / 52.412917; -1.507306
Care system
Type
General
Hospitals in England
Coventry
University Hospital Coventry
Coventry Blitz
Second World War
14 November 1940
8 April 1941
St John Ambulance
National Health Service
Walsgrave Hospital
outpatient
accident and emergency
ophthalmology
orthopaedics
private finance initiative
listed buildings
"The Founding of a Hospital"
"The Coventry Blitz"
"The Post-War Era"
"The Doctor's Story"
"The Closing of a Hospital"
"Historic Coventry hospital buildings could be turned into student accommodation"
Coventry Telegraph

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