Title

St Thomas' Hospital, Lambeth Palace Road, Lambeth, London, 28/02/1977. Creator: John Laing plc.

Caption

St Thomas' Hospital, Lambeth Palace Road, Lambeth, London, 28/02/1977. Looking along the central avenue between four new blocks at St Thomas' Hospital, with the hospital sign in the foreground, from the east. Work on Phase II of a rebuilding project at St Thomas' Hospital was undertaken by Laing and began in early 1969 and was completed in 1975. This phase included a new ward block, operating suites, outpatients' department, research institute, nurses' home and nurses' training school. Phase I had been completed in 1966 by Sir Robert McAlpine and Sons; Phase III of the project was planned to begin in 1975.

Date

1977

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England

Reference

HRM22A18_112

Model release

No

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

103,2Mb (4,7Mb) / 22,6in x 17,7in / 6780 x 5318 (300dpi)

Keywords

exterior outdoors building buildings London England health healthcare hospital architecture politics country sign tower British English palace machine machinery block blocks political location century Big Ben Houses of Parliament Britain B&W seventies National Health Service NHS 1970s Construction Industry black & white black and white B W 20th century Lambeth Palace of Westminster St Stephen's Tower St Thomas' Hospital TGN outside photograph Saint Thomas' Hospital Yorke Elizabeth Tower Historic England John Laing plc Laing John plc John Laing & Co John Laing and Company John Laing & Company John Laing and Co Rosenberg and Mardall YRM