QA Hospital
Today Tim and I went to our main hospital as Tim had to have a routine ultrasound scan (a follow up to the surgery he had on his thyroid in 2019). Although most of the original building has gone and been rebuilt (apart from the red brick building), it still bring back memories of visiting my brother there when his diabetes etc were playing him up. It's the beautiful pine trees that I am always drawn to. I've been there a few times for myself, including when I had my brain haemorrhage, and I often accompanied my Mum when she had to go to the Eye Dept there.
The Queen Alexandra Hospital (commonly known as QA Hospital, or simply QA) in Cosham, Portsmouth, is one of the NHS hospitals serving the city of Portsmouth and the surrounding area. There are several small treatment outstations which have been opened to relieve the overload at the QA Hospital. It is publicly owned and is administered by the Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust and has a Ministry of Defence Hospital Unit attached.Originally a military hospital, The Queen Alexandra (named for Alexandra of Denmark, King Edward VII's consort) was built between 1904 and 1908 to replace an earlier hospital which stood in Lion Street in Portsea, Portsmouth. The original buildings were of red brick construction, and the site was in a largely rural area, linked to Portsmouth and the surrounding villages (now suburbs) by a tram service.
Later in the 1960s, it was announced that the Queen Alexandra would become a district general hospital, complete with an Accident and Emergency department. This involved the construction of several new buildings, which began in 1968 with an eye department, a training school for nurses and two three-storey blocks for staff accommodation. A further two accommodation blocks, this time nine storeys high, were added later, being completed in 1976. Only two of the planned three new ward blocks were built (Edited from Wikipedia)
In the background, on the hill, you can see Fort Widley.
Fort Widley is one of the forts built on top of Portsdown Hill between 1860 and 1868 on the recommendation of the Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom. It was designed, along with the other Palmerston Forts atop Portsdown, to protect Portsmouth from attack from the rear.
QA Hospital
Today Tim and I went to our main hospital as Tim had to have a routine ultrasound scan (a follow up to the surgery he had on his thyroid in 2019). Although most of the original building has gone and been rebuilt (apart from the red brick building), it still bring back memories of visiting my brother there when his diabetes etc were playing him up. It's the beautiful pine trees that I am always drawn to. I've been there a few times for myself, including when I had my brain haemorrhage, and I often accompanied my Mum when she had to go to the Eye Dept there.
The Queen Alexandra Hospital (commonly known as QA Hospital, or simply QA) in Cosham, Portsmouth, is one of the NHS hospitals serving the city of Portsmouth and the surrounding area. There are several small treatment outstations which have been opened to relieve the overload at the QA Hospital. It is publicly owned and is administered by the Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust and has a Ministry of Defence Hospital Unit attached.Originally a military hospital, The Queen Alexandra (named for Alexandra of Denmark, King Edward VII's consort) was built between 1904 and 1908 to replace an earlier hospital which stood in Lion Street in Portsea, Portsmouth. The original buildings were of red brick construction, and the site was in a largely rural area, linked to Portsmouth and the surrounding villages (now suburbs) by a tram service.
Later in the 1960s, it was announced that the Queen Alexandra would become a district general hospital, complete with an Accident and Emergency department. This involved the construction of several new buildings, which began in 1968 with an eye department, a training school for nurses and two three-storey blocks for staff accommodation. A further two accommodation blocks, this time nine storeys high, were added later, being completed in 1976. Only two of the planned three new ward blocks were built (Edited from Wikipedia)
In the background, on the hill, you can see Fort Widley.
Fort Widley is one of the forts built on top of Portsdown Hill between 1860 and 1868 on the recommendation of the Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom. It was designed, along with the other Palmerston Forts atop Portsdown, to protect Portsmouth from attack from the rear.