Sujet

West Cumberland Hospital, Homewood Road, Homewood, Whitehaven, Copeland, Cumbria, 1964. Creator: John Laing plc.

Légende

West Cumberland Hospital, Homewood Road, Homewood, Whitehaven, Copeland, Cumbria, 27/08/1964. Workers washing and pressing bed linen in the laundry at West Cumberland Hospital. Built during the first phase of construction at the site along with the boiler house and workshops, the laundry could handle 45,000 articles a week and serviced a number of hospitals in the region. This photograph appeared in the December 1964 issue of Team Spirit, the Laing company newsletter.

Date

1964

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England

Notre référence

HRM22A18_054

Model release

Non

Property release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

104,7Mo (5,3Mo) / 57,6cm x 45,6cm / 6802 x 5380 (300dpi)

Mots clés

building England female women woman people male interior work man men health healthcare hospital medicine domestic worker country washing science guy laundry British Cumbria English location century Britain inside household washing machine concept appliance whitehaven B&W household appliance Sixties National Health Service NHS Construction Industry Domestic Appliance Indoors black & white black and white B W Bed Linen 1960s 20th century workers TGN working photograph Historic England John Laing plc Laing John plc John Laing & Co John Laing and Company John Laing & Company John Laing and Co West Cumberland Hospital