Entrance to Alder Hey Hospital, Liverpool
The entrance to Alder Hey Hospital, near Liverpool. Uniformed soldiers stand at the gate on the left. The hospital opened in 1915 to house chronic and bedridden patients from the West Derby Union and workhouse. During the First World War, Alder Hey was used as a military hospital, later becoming a children's hospital
Picture No
10416010
Media ID
47517867
Size
4907px x 3075px
(2.7MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Peter Higginbotham Collection
Source
Unattributed photograph on a postcard
Date
circa 1915
