The Old Hospitals
The doorway above seems to echo the doorways of Clifford
Road School that bear lettering of a similar vintage above them:
'PATHOLOGY'
belonging
to the old Anglesea Road Hospital which stood above the top of Berners
Street.
This rather battered doorway is just off Ivry Street and is the side
door
of the present Institute of Family Psychiatry building.
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Not far from this door stands another, very different,
but related doorway.
Different in that it is less deco than baroque with its pillars and
mouldings, but
also
in that it leads nowhere, serving as a frame for the plaque
commemorating
Ipswich and East Suffolk (Anglesea Road) Hospital and its conversion
into
'Anglesea Heights'. The original hospital building designed by William
Parkes
Robbins in 1836 has been preserved and this doorway to the 'VICTORIA
WING'
(the wing designed by E.E. Bisshopp in 1892) was saved, thank goodness,
from the widespread demolition on the site. It now stands in the car
park
where one or two other sculptural details including the fine
comemoration
plaque for the 'Ipswich War Memorial Wing' which stood on the site.
(Photograph courtesy Mike
O'Donovan)
'ST PETERS HALL
TO THE GLORY OF GOD
AND IN THE MEMORY OF
MRS J. H. BARTLET
AD 1911'
In St Peters Street is a memorial to the wife of Dr. John Henry
Bartlet who left left £250k in stocks and
shares in his will when
he died aged 87 in 1917 to be used for the provision of the the
Bartlet Hospital above the seafront in Felixstowe. John
Henry was a surgeon based at Ipswich Hospital. He
was also the son of an Ipswich surgeon and therefore had a good
understanding of healthcare and the need for convalescent care. Before
he died aged 87, he made a will that made provision of a convalescent
home as he identified the gap in the general care of
patients. The Trust money transferred in
1947 has
apparently vanished
without a trace: financial records from the NHS were not kept until
1996! The bank that the money was in has no record of where it
has gone. The Bartlet was closed in January 2008. [Information
from Bartlet Bequest Action Group] There is a
somewhat similar
inscription over the door on the building to the left of the entrance
to Anglesea Heights, formerly Anglesea Road Hospital where Dr. Bartlet
used to work. Thanks to Mike O'Donovan for this example and the next.
(Photograph courtesy
Mike
O'Donovan)
Mike writes: "I took [this] a
good few years ago at the entrance to what was then Hightrees
Adolescent Unit off Foxhall Road on the outskirts of the town. It reads:
"Erected by voluntary subscription as a memorial to King Edward VII.
The site being presented by Mr. E. G. Pretyman, M.P."
I'm not sure if it still exists. The area is now the Nuffield [on the
other side of the road to the Foxhall speedway stadium]."
The blocked out lettering at the top of the tablet probably read
'FOXHALL HOSPITAL'. We believe that this tablet no longer exists - does
anyone know any different?
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