Title

West Cumberland Hospital, Homewood Road, Homewood, Whitehaven, Copeland, Cumbria, May 1960. Creator: John Laing plc.

Caption

West Cumberland Hospital, Homewood Road, Homewood, Whitehaven, Copeland, Cumbria, 31/05/1960. Two nurses outside the entrance to the nurses' accommodation block at West Cumberland Hospital. Team Spirit, the Laing company newsletter, indicates that the geriatric and psychiatric units were built during the first phase of construction, completed in 1959.

Date

1960

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England

Reference

HRM22A18_046

Model release

No

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

103,7Mb (7,2Mb) / 22,6in x 17,8in / 6786 x 5339 (300dpi)

Keywords

exterior outdoors building England female women woman people health healthcare hospital medicine architecture country science steps British Cumbria English accommodation step entrance location century Britain nurse nurses nursing whitehaven B&W fifties 1950s Sixties National Health Service NHS Construction Industry black & white black and white B W 1960s 20th century decade TGN outside photograph Pearson Historic England John Laing plc Laing John plc John Laing & Co John Laing and Company John Laing & Company John Laing and Co way in accommodation block West Cumberland Hospital Charles B Pearson & Son Charles B Pearson and Son Charles B