EPW006254 ENGLAND (1921). Grove Park Hospital, Grove Park, 1921

The complex is Grove Park Workhouse of the Greewich Board of Guardians. Foundation stone 1899. Opened 1903. Taken over by Army Service Corps 1914 for mobilisation and training. Became Grove Park Tuberculosis Hospital of MAB from 1926. TB gave way to general thoracic surgery in 1950s and went on until 1977. Thereafter the hospital became a home for people with Learning Difficulties. In 1993 it closed but a community clinic (blood tests etc) was opened on Marvels Lane in one of the original buildings. The frontage on Marvels Lane and the main administration building were retained at the insistence of the Grove Park Community Group, the Lewisham Local History Society and others. Apart from the clinic, the remaining buildings were converted for social housing while the other buildings including the ward blocks were demolished to be replaced by social and private housing. The remaining buildings were locally listed by Lewisham Council in 2011.



The drawings of the workhouse were displayed at the Great International Exhibition in Paris in 1900 - the British received a diploma of merit.



I believe the photo was taken in the First World War as there appear to be some new structures which were put up by the military in those years. There also to be some vehicles.



There is more info about the history of the workhouse/hospital in my book GROVE PARK : ITS HISTORY REVISITED which was published by the Grove Park Community Group in 2011.



The boundary with Bromley Council is to the left.

Grove Park Hospital. Former Workhouse built by Greenwich Board of Guardians. Requisitioned as a Mobilisation Camp in WWI and sold in 1919 to the Metropolitan Asylums Board who used it as a Tuberculosis Sanatorium named Grove Park Hospital. Became a mental handicap hospital in 1977 and closed in 1994. Further reading: http://ezitis.myzen.co.uk/grovepark.html

Hi - this image comes up if you search for Carshalton - so must be an error somewhere in the metadata?

This is definitely Grove Park Work House in Greenwich.

The entrance still exists as Marvels Lane Clinic, 37 Marvels Lane, London, SE12 9PN (crossing Pennington Way).

Yes it looks like a hospital or asylum, similar to Metropolitan Asylums Board ones like Brooks (fever) Hospital.

The tower is likely to be a water-tower (see workhouses dot org UK under MAB). Most have been destroyed for housing estates.

If you look at the flightpath, the preceding 2 pics were taken in Sutton and Carshalton and the next but one after is taken in Dartford so its a fair guess that this place is somewhere between the two. I've had a swift look on Google, but nowt concrete yet.