Royal Waterloo Hospital for Children and Women
‘London Women’s Miscellany’
Gallivanting in my home city and further afield. Words by me, photos (mainly) by him. The good ones anyway!
Royal Waterloo Hospital for Children and Women
Gallivanting in my home city and further afield. Words by me, photos (mainly) by him. The good ones anyway!
The Glasgow Gallivanter 
Ha Ha. I think I have ‘infected’ you with the medical women bug! My next blog is about Elizabeth Garret Anderson’s daughter, Louisa. The Hospital for Women and Children does indeed have a chequered history. Both it and the building across from it were used as military hospitals in WW1. There used to be tunnels to cross the road in that direction from Waterloo Station. They were originally used to transport the wounded to the hospitals from the ambulance trains to keep the public unaware of the extent of the carnage. There is a memorial plaque nearby in Waterloo church grounds from the women nurses in remembrance of the men they cared for in that hospital. Glad you found Crossbones. i used to attend the memorial events there. Some time, we need to have a trip to London together – we’d have a blast digging out women’s history. I already know so much, but there is lots more to find. Loved this post, but it made me a bit ‘London’ sick!
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I think you have, though a lot of it was serendipity – eg I spotted that hospital on the way to catch a train at Waterloo and only found out its awful history when I looked it up for this post. I didn’t know about the war history though, or the plaque. The London trip sounds like an excellent idea! *Starts plotting*
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