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''I live in Cliveden''
18 May 2007.
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The Canadian Red Cross Memorial Hospital in
The hospital closed and was abandoned in 1985 and lay derelict for two decades while the
, Local, BerkshireTaplow
Taplow is a village and civil parish in the Unitary Authority of Buckinghamshire, England. It sits on the left bank of the River Thames, facing Maidenhead in the neighbouring county of Berkshire, with Cippenham and Burnham to the east. It is the ...
, Buckinghamshire, was a civilian hospital and a centre for research into rheumatism in children until its closure in 1985.
History
War time origins
In 1914, during theFirst World War
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, the Astor family
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the Astors settled ...
invited the Canadian Red Cross
The Canadian Red Cross Society ()Cliveden
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estate. The Red Cross built a small hospital, the HRH Duchess of Connaught Hospital, on the site. It was named after the Duchess of Connaught who had served as Viceregal consort of Canada
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.
In the Second World War
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, the Canadian Red Cross demolished many of the existing buildings to make way for a new, larger hospital with more equipment; this was named the Canadian Red Cross Memorial Hospital.
General Hospital
After the war the hospital was donated to the British Government for use as a general hospital and research centre into rheumatism in children. After opening to the public in 1947, it came under the supervision of the newly formedNational Health Service
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. The hospital also developed a large maternity
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unit at this time.
The painter Stanley Spencer, who lived in nearby Cookham
Cookham is a historic River Thames, Thames-side village and civil parishes in England, civil parish on the north-eastern edge of Berkshire, England, north-north-east of Maidenhead and opposite the village of Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, Bourne ...
, died in the hospital in 1959 from cancer, having undergone an unsuccessful operation there the year before. Dr Barbara Ansell, the founder of paediatric rheumatology, worked at the hospital from the 1960s through to the 1980s.
Closure
The hospital closed and was abandoned in 1985 and lay derelict for two decades while the National Trust
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, who owned the site since 1942, explored options for its development. Many pieces of the hospital's old equipment lay there for years. It was demolished in 2006 to make way for a housing development
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Popular throughout the United States ...
for people aged 55 and over called Cliveden Village.BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC
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...''I live in Cliveden''
18 May 2007.
References
Further reading
* Ansell, B. M., C.B.E. et al. ''The Canadian Red Cross Memorial Hospital Cliveden, Taplow, England''. Barbara M. Ansell, 1997.External links
Canadian Red Cross Memorial Hospital fan website
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