History of St Ann's Hospital

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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on October 6, 2015 at 16:44

There is a short but interesting article here
http://ezitis.myzen.co.uk/stanns.html

Permalink Reply by Kat on October 6, 2015 at 17:18

Thank you, that website is a favourite of mine and I have been known to do walking tours around old hospitals in London!

Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on October 6, 2015 at 17:21

You know, if someone had the skill and ability, a real history of St Ann's would be fascinating. The whole story about the original development as a fever hospital and the time it was used by allied troops in WW1.

Permalink Reply by Tina on October 6, 2015 at 17:25

I went to St Anne's school and we used to do maypole dancing there every summer in the grounds also my dancing school used to perform there for all of Haringay it was lovely . I will ask in and dad if they new what went on there as they have lived off St Anne's Rd all their lives

Permalink Reply by Geraldine on October 6, 2015 at 22:42

St Ann's certainly had an A & E Department.  I was taken there from the school playground with fracture of right tibia (c. 1948).  Later, when my mother suffered a stroke in the 1970s, she was an inpatient.

Permalink Reply by StephenBln on October 7, 2015 at 11:02

St Ann's was an isolation hospital in the 40's, 50's of the last century. I recall family tales of my very young sister being there in the late 40s and nobody been allowed to visit.

Permalink Reply by Tina on October 7, 2015 at 22:57

My dad has said it was in isolation hospital because it was a specialist fever hospital he said all the different little buildings all were for a different type of fever and no one was allowed to visit anyone staying in the hospital
Hope that helps

Permalink Reply by Richard Woods on October 9, 2015 at 10:44

Sometime in the 50s I was taken to a garden party at St Anns which was opened by Petula Clarke - I was just old enough to fall hopelessly in love with her! There may be pictures in the Journal or Herald files?

Permalink Reply by Janet Dowthwaite-Clark on November 19, 2015 at 21:14

I spent many an hour visiting at St Ann's as both my brother and sister were in-patients there several times. Being young I wasn't allowed on the wards so I was left at the gatehouse just inside the entrance. I hated every moment I was left there!