Queen Mary’s Hospital was my local hospital as a child living in Sidcup in the 1950s and 60s. When I broke my arm aged 4 and had to to hospital it was a trip on the 228 bus and then you walked down Frognal Lane to the hospital. I had to go weekly for 6 weeks and each week as I walked down the Lane I collected a bunch of dandelions, buttercups and daisies which I gave to the doctor who passed them onto the nurse!
The wards were huts with the paths between them open to the sides but roofed over. I remember also aged 4 being taken to stand outside the children’s ward hut and my brother being held up to the window so I could wave to him.
10 years on my father was in one of the same hut wards and so was my mother another couple of years later. I think the hospital was rebuilt in the 1970s but I’d left the area then.
For 7 years I walked, bussed or cycled past the end of Frognal Lane on my way to school just over the A20 and up Perry St and turn right.
Just found this
https://ezitis.myzen.co.uk/queenmarysidcup.html
