The hospital of St. Bartholomew, Rochester, Kent (1929)

A portrait of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, Rochester, which claims to be Britain's oldest hospital between the Wars, emphasising the hospital's diverse relations with the economy and society of the Medway towns and its dependence on voluntary work and charitable donations by the public. Find out more: catalogue.wellcomelibrary.org/....

[@johnsmith-ht3sy]

Now in 2022 the Hospital is being converted into 150 private apartments for sale.

[@spudspuddy]

i have my hernia sorted there in 1965, the church is now a karate club/gym, still contains the oldest stained glass window in england from when Gundulph built it...fun fact Tolkein was a professor of saxon studies and modelled the wizard Gandalph on the statue of Gundulph on Rochester Catherdral

[@keith800]

Lovely video ,it is a priceless record of the past and we are blessed that the building has been retained for us to relate this to.

[@johnmortley153]

I did a lot of my training as A Nurse there in 1973

[@twopintkarl]

Fantastic piece of local history

[@paranormalrespectingspirit5190]

Was there any patients here that would of been treated for TB ?