Pembury Hospital

[MaxD]

Would anyone know which of the buildings depicted in colour in Peter Higginbotham's splendid piece (I'm a great fan) on the Tonbridge workhouse http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Tonbridge/ would have been the maternity unit in 1940/41 (hopefully not the vagrants' unit!).
maxD

[JaneyH_104]

My son was born in the "old" Pembury Hospital in 2007, and from the outside it was pretty ancient by then.  (The maternity and nursing care was first class, though!).  I visited a friend in the maternity unit of the new hospital a couple of years ago and it seemed more like a hotel.


Anyway, to answer the question. The Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells Health Trust has some pictures of the maternity unit at Pembury in 1938 on its Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.235048149973306.1073741826.116264778518311&type=3

Also, if you're on Facebook, then search for a group called "New Old Tunbridge Wells Photos". It's a closed group, but anyone can join so just send a request.  There's a wealth of photos on there, along with lots of local people with access to collections of local pictures.