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Coppetts Wood Hospital
Hello everyone. I apologise if there is already a thread on this, but I have searched and cannot find any results for it in the forum. I am interested in Coppetts Wood Hospital (now defunct). I understand it was the main unit for tropical diseases.
A source tells me it is owned by some security company now and is mainly un-occupied. Does anyone know if they would be likely to arrange visits for local groups to see inside? There are not many photographs online.
Also, does anyone know where this clip was filmed? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK1uM5s4Www It looks completely different on Google Maps.
Thanks.
JBallsworth
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Permalink Reply by Natalie on
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I assume you've found this:
http://ezitis.myzen.co.uk/coppettswood.html
It's not up to date but it seems that in 2011 the site was managed by Camelot but still owned by the Royal Free Hospital Trust.
Your post caught my eye because I was admitted there for about a week in 1998 with dengue fever after catching it on a trip to Thailand!
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Hi. Yes I found that page - quite interesting.
I didn't know the trust still owned it.
What was the hospital like when you was there, from what I gather it was only able to accommodate 2 patients at that time?
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According to that link they were down to 35 beds by 1996 and 2 beds in 2000. There were definitely more than 2 beds when I was there. I don't remember it being very busy but I was quite out of it for most of the time I was there so not a very good witness!
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Permalink Reply by Lesley Ramm on
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You could try contacting Hornsey Historical Society for info on History of hospital. Me and my brother were in the isolation hospital in mid 1950s when aged about 4 and 2 with scarlet fever and mumps (both at same time). It had separate rooms for patients. We shared. I remember pale green painted with large glass areas. Visitors only allowed on a Sunday.
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Permalink Reply by Kat on
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I'm obsessed with old hospitals! Guessing this one is going to be turned into more luxury flats like all the others? (Eventually as it seems these old NHS sites lie empty for years, what a waste)
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HI
A friend of mine lived in the hospital until last month as a guardian but he has now left as it is being turned in apartments so you would nt be able to get in now as it is under construction.
Hope this helps
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Coppetts Wood Hospital-now there's a blast from the past. I was in Coppetts Wood for 13 days in 1973 with Glandular Fever! Today we still go to school or work with it but in '73 we went into isolation. The ward I was on had a long corridor running down the centre either side of which had small rooms with glass windows on 3 sides-window cill height. The fourth side was the outside wall-don't remember a window on that wall. Each of the Windows had curtains. The room contained a bed, TV on a wheelable stand, an armchair and an upright chair for visitors, a commode, an over the bed table for meals/drinks and bedside cabinet. Once in the room you did not come out until discharge. If one wanted to use the commode one had to ask a nurse to pull 3 sets of curtains otherwise the patients in beds either side and opposite could view you. In fact, just writing this I recall when first admitted I didn't have a commode-only a bedpan that I had to balance on a hospital armchair-being 17 I was mortified. Some ward sisters liked ALL curtains fully drawn open! Others were happy to close the side curtains so that patients either side had some privacy, and keep the curtains adjacent to the corridor open. I spent 13 days watching TV-in particular I remember Crossroads. I remember an auxiliary watching with me but she wasn't allowed to sit down. Looking back, the 13 days in isolation made me more unwell than the Glandular Fever!!
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