Orchard Convalescent Hospital, Dartford, Kent
The Orchard Convalescent Hospital at Long Reach, near Dartford, Kent, during its First World War deployment as a military hospital for overseas troops, mainly Australians. The hospital was opened by the Metropolitan Asylums Board in 1902 as temporary accommodation during a smallpox epidemic. It had its own small tramway whose rails can be seen
Picture No
10418920
Media ID
47549267
Size
4838px x 2993px
(1.2MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Peter Higginbotham Collection
Source
Unattributed photograph on a postcard
Date
circa 1915
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