Edgehill
Auxiliary Hospital
Edgehill
House, 25 Peak Hill, Lower Sydenham SE26 4LT
Medical
dates:
Medical
character:
Convalescent (military)
Little is know about the use of Edgehill House as an auxiliary
hospital. It presumably opened in the last year of the war in
1918 and was occupied by patients transferred from Brooklyn V.A.D. Hospital under the
care of the Kent/132 Voluntary Aid
Detachment.
The Hospital had 58 beds.
The Hospital had 58 beds.
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Edgehill House is recorded as having been used as an auxiliary military hospital during WW1. No further details have (as yet) come to light. If you have any information regarding the history of the Edgehill Auxiliary Hospital, please contact: webmaster@ezitis.myzen.co.uk |
Present
status (October 2010)
The site of the Hospital is now occupied by Brasted Close, a municipal housing estate.
The entrance to Brasted Close is on the line of the former driveway to Edgehill House.
Brasted Close.
Walker J 1979 The British Red Cross in the Bromley area 1910-1919. Bromley Local History 4, 17-23.
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