Sailing Past Netley
by Terri Waters
Title
Sailing Past Netley
Artist
Terri Waters
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
As the British Army's first purpose-built hospital, Royal Victoria was a unique and ambitious project which would help change the face of the medical world.
In 19 May 1856 Queen Victoria laid the foundation stone of what would soon become a bustling military hospital, first used during the Crimean War and Second Boer War and later the First and Second World Wars.
Between 1918 - 1939 Netley Hospital was used for tuberculosis patients
The huge building consisted of 30 million bricks, which made it the longest building in the world at that time, and contained 138 wards and 1000 beds.
In 1963 a bad fire resulted in the building being condemned and in 1966 the Hospital was demolished.
The diggers and trucks came to the front of the hospital's chapel, which was in the centre of the vast building, and everything stopped. At the last moment, it was decided to save this holy place, as a monument to Netley Hospital. In front of the chapel was a big foundation stone, which had been tapped into place by Queen Victoria herself, more than a century before.
Now the chapel stands proudly as a memorial to the staff and patients among the trees and lawns overlooking Southampton Water.
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