Chris_Baker Posted 8 September , 2005 Share Posted 8 September , 2005 This great photo has been sent to me by Ted at Digger History. Can anyone identify the location of "Palace Hospital"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry_Reeves Posted 8 September , 2005 Share Posted 8 September , 2005 Chris There are a number of possibilities . All these below were WW1 auxiliary hospitals in the UK during WW1 Palace Hospital, Peterborough The Palace, Norwich Red Cross Aux Hospital The Old Palace, Lincoln The Old Palace, Sleaford Auxil. Hospital Gloucester Red Cross Hospital, The Palace Endsleigh Palace Hospital, London (Officers only though) I just wonder if the flint and brick construction may give a clue. Terry Reeves Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeppoSapone Posted 8 September , 2005 Share Posted 8 September , 2005 Definately not the Palace, Buxton. See photo posted on this site. The Palace Hotel became a Canadian Hospital for the last bit of the war. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clive Maier Posted 9 September , 2005 Share Posted 9 September , 2005 Flint is an intractable material and highly irregular in shape, except where sea action has rounded the nodules into pebbles. This makes for difficulties in building and a wall of unknapped flints get most of its strength from the mortar rather than the stone. So flint building is confined to areas where the material occurs naturally and where there is also a comparative lack of a more workable stone. It is particularly associated with Suffolk, Norfolk, Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Essex, Middlesex, Hertfordshire, and parts of Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob B Posted 9 September , 2005 Share Posted 9 September , 2005 This could be a real winger but this looks like the entrance to what was recently the Sue Ryder Foundation Head office that was recently sold and that was based in the Suffolk-Norfolk neck of the woods. Just an idea. Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeppoSapone Posted 9 September , 2005 Share Posted 9 September , 2005 This could be a real winger but this looks like the entrance to what was recently the Sue Ryder Foundation Head office that was recently sold and that was based in the Suffolk-Norfolk neck of the woods. Just an idea. Rob <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Using Rob B's Sue Ryder clue I came up with The Old Palace, Ely. According to the blurb: "The Old Palace has also been a convalescent home to servicemen", so it might be the place. Maybe you could contact them and ask if they recognise the part of the building in the photo? http://www.suerydercare.org/carecentres/home.asp?id=15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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