Tuesday 7 August 2012

Little Bay, Coast Hospital

This heritage building was part of the former Prince Henry Hospital in the eastern suburb of Little Bay. Originally known as the Coast Hospital, it had its origins managing patients with infectious diseases such as the smallpox outbreak in 1881, the bubonic plague in 1900 and the spanish flu pandemic in 1919. The Coast Hospital was renamed the Prince Henry Hospital in 1934 and operated until 2001. The Prince Henry site has since been sold and is being redeveloped for housing. The restored 1914 wards of the hospital now house the Nursing and Medical Museum and a Community Centre.

30 comments:

  1. For a moment, I thought that was horse stable itself...

    Interesting to know this is a hospital !

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  2. Wonderful that its history is kept alive and the buildings are taken that much care of.

    Please have a good Tuesday.


    daily athens photo

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  3. Interesting building and an even more interesting history! Great capture for the day, Jim! Hope you have a good week!

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  4. Great photo of a site with a very interesting history.

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  5. So pretty! Landed here from Ruby Tuesday.


    I hope you can also visit my Ruby entry, thank you.

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  6. At first glance, had a feeling it was a structure built during or prior to the turn of 20th century similar to production backdrops of period epic films. Splendid shot!


    Cheers ... visiting from Our World Tuesday.

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  7. I would never have guessed this building used to be a hospital.

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  8. There is so much to get out and see in Sydney, This I haven't seen.

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  9. It has been restored beautifully! Nice photo too:)

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  10. It looks very nicely kept! Love that tough of red around the bottom of the railing. Interesting history too - lots to be remembered there!

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  11. It really doesn't look like a hospital. Great shot!

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  12. Wonderfully simple looking building - I think we will miss these clean lines when we look back on the sorts of things we build these days.

    Stewart M - Melbourne

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  13. I'm pleased some of the original hospital has been preserved as a museum.

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  14. Had no idea about the history of RPH, makes sense that for the isolated location (then).

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  15. Mark, that was exactly the reason why thy chose the location. It was quite a remote location back then.

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  16. Bungalow type hospitals often have a history as infectious disease hospitals in the UK. Allowed them to wheel the beds outside for the fresh air cure if nothing else worked!

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  17. I love that you take us on a 'tour' of where you live as you participate in photo links....I love to see different places.

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  18. Deb, that explains a lot about the design with the verandahs running the length of the buildings.

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  19. Cool looking building. Glad to know it is being re-purposed.

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  20. Interesting hitory nd nice shot!Have a great day!

    Shantana

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  21. What a terrific piece of historical hospital building. I have never seen Coast Hospital, so thank you.

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  22. It's actually a nice and useful piece of information. I am satisfied that you shared this useful information with us. Please stay us up to date like this.

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  23. We have an amazing history of quite serious infectious disease epidemics in Australia!

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