HAMPTON / Hygrove HOUSE, Minsterworth 1950's (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Tuesday, December 30, 2014, 15:40 (3617 days ago) @ goudgess

Hi Sarah, thanks for posting.
If I'm right in thinking your likely timescale wrt the huts is still 1950s, so well after the Wars, despite not being an expert I'd have thought it unlikely the huts were for military use assuming they still had patients at that time, also seems an odd location for a military hospital ?. That said, the huts may have been originally built for military camp use somewhere, several war-surplus huts were sold-off after the wars and transported many miles to their new homes ?.
I wonder if they were perhaps TB wards, fresh air being considered a standard treatment for this terrible disease ?.

This was the first link a quick google re "tb wards" produced, which by coincidence is the right era (I think ?), and almost the right area ?.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/6571543.stm

Then again Standish was already the local TB hospital, so maybe not.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standish_Hospital

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