epw015959 ENGLAND (1926). The Thingwall Sanatorium, Thingwall, 1926

Title	[EPW015959] The Thingwall Sanatorium, Thingwall, 1926
Reference	EPW015959
Date	June-1926
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Place name	THINGWALL
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District
Country	ENGLAND
Easting / Northing	328475, 384376
Longitude / Latitude	-3.0746417206766, 53.351160764351
National Grid Reference	SJ285844

Beds outside for the "Open Air Cure"

Monday 22nd of October 2012 01:12:47 PM

Planned by Birkenhead County Borough Council as a smallpox hospital, but opened in 1921 as a T.B. sanatorium. It specialised in orthopaedics, treating children suffering from non-pulmonary tuberculosis; and, in the early 1950s, long-stay child patients with psychosomatic conditions, or short stay child patients with mental and physical handicaps. Rebuilt in 1982 as a private hospital called Murrayfield.	Dan Gregory	Tuesday 3rd of June 2014 07:37:32 PM
Recently famous for footballers knee operations and the Hyperbaric Chamber Suite where divers suffering from the bends can decompress. RAF Rescue helicopters are frequent visitors. Barnston 'Dales' are the line of trees snaking away behind the buildings.	Pete65	Monday 14th of October 2013 10:59:06 AM
Now the site of the Spire Murrayfield Hospital.	BruceR	Monday 22nd of October 2012 01:13:56 PM
Thingwall	inflatablebone	Tuesday 26th of June 2012 09:00:40 PM