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Acton Cottage Hospital was initially the gift of J
Passmore Edwards
It was extended after both world wars as a War
Memorial
Acton Hospital, Gunnersbury lane
The Acton
Hospital was founded in 1897 to mark
the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria.
J Passmore Edwards, the great Victorian Philanthropist contributed £2,500
towards the cost. The land was donated by Leopold Rothschild of Gunnersbury Park. The building was designed by
Charles Bell FRIBA, and built by George Hooper of Avenue Road. The Hospital had
12 beds and one cot. There was no national health provision at this time, so
the running of the hospital was funded by street collections, and by payment of
subscriptions that gave entitlement to medical care. The local doctors gave
their services free to the hospital.
Two wings were added in 1923, and opened
by Neville Chamberlain, as the War Memorial for Acton. During the 1920's and 1930's the
hospital was provided with up-to-date facilities to serve the growing
population of Acton.
During the second war, the hospital was enlarged to deal with the causalities
of the war. The hospital passed in to the National Health Service in 1948, but
the hospital continued to have the support of the local community to provide
additional facilities that would not otherwise be provided.
Further
Reading
Available at Ealing Local History
Library:
R N G Rowland, Acton As It Was (1981)
T & A Harper Smith, Acton (Britain
in old photographs) (1995)
R N G Rowland, Acton A-Z (1992)
King-Baker, Acton - Middlesex (1912);
Victoria County History, Middlesex,
Volume 7 Available on line
here.
Acton Past and Present, publications
of the Acton History Group
Still in print:
Acton - A History, J Oates
Acton, J Oates
Victoria County
History, Middlesex, Volume 7
Other
sources of information are available at Ealing local history Library
Local History Centre
Family History Sources
For details
of what's going on in Acton at the present go to:
actonw3.com
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