Thorpe Coombe Hospital

Thorpe Coombe Hospital
Thorpe Coombe Hospital
	Thorpe Coombe Hospital
	Location within Waltham Forest
Geography
Location	Walthamstow, London, England, United Kingdom
Coordinates	51.5907°N 0.0079°W
Organisation
Care system	National Health Service
Type	Specialist
Services
Emergency department	No
Speciality	Psychiatry
History
Opened	1934

Thorpe Coombe Hospital was a psychiatric hospital and former maternity hospital in Walthamstow, London.

History

Walthamstow Borough Council acquired a mansion called North Bank which had been owned by Octavius Wigram for the purposes of establishing a maternity hospital in 1929.[1][2][3] The hospital was opened by Dame Janet Campbell, a leading physician, in April 1934.[3] As a maternity hospital it had circa 70 beds.[1] It joined the National Health Service in 1948.[3] It ceased maternity facilities in 1973 and was subsequently used as a nurses' home, then a treatment centre for Alzheimer's disease patients and latterly as a mental health facility.[3]

The hospital closed in 2017, and parts of the site were demolished to make way for a new health centre, known as the Jane Atkinson Health and Wellbeing Centre, which opened in November 2019.[4]

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References

"History: Thorpe Coombe Hospital". East London and West Essex Guardian Series. 27 February 2012. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
"Your Story: The Forest Group of Hospitals". BBC. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
"Thorpe Coombe Maternity Hospital". Lost Hospitals of London. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
"Opening of the new Jane Atkinson Health and Wellbeing Centre – Monday 11 November 2019". North East London NHS Foundation Trust. Retrieved 24 March 2020.

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[guardian-series1-1] "History: Thorpe Coombe Hospital". East London and West Essex Guardian Series. 27 February 2012. Retrieved 1 July 2018.

[2] "Your Story: The Forest Group of Hospitals". BBC. Retrieved 1 July 2018.

[lost-3] "Thorpe Coombe Maternity Hospital". Lost Hospitals of London. Retrieved 1 July 2018.

[4] "Opening of the new Jane Atkinson Health and Wellbeing Centre – Monday 11 November 2019". North East London NHS Foundation Trust. Retrieved 24 March 2020.