“…in 1862 other buildings in Temple Street were bought and adapted at a cost of £8,217 for the reception of 45 patients; but these proving still inadequate, an entirely new Hospital was erected in 1884 in Church Street, with frontages to Edmund Street and Barwick Street, at a cost, including fittings, of about £20,000, and available for 70 in patients, and the Hospital was opened Thursday 24 July 1884, by Lady Leigh.”
The old Eye Hospital.
“…in 1862 other buildings in Temple Street were bought and adapted at a cost of £8,217 for the reception of 45 patients; but these proving still inadequate, an entirely new Hospital was erected in 1884 in Church Street, with frontages to Edmund Street and Barwick Street, at a cost, including fittings, of about £20,000, and available for 70 in patients, and the Hospital was opened Thursday 24 July 1884, by Lady Leigh.”
What is that big black ball in aid of? Reminds me of a scene from The Prisoner.