Quote Originally Posted by snappel View Post
I think Newsham Hospital (aka Newsham General) was another hospital, demolished in the 1980s. I may be wrong. The sailors orphanage in your postcard became Park Hospital, and still has a small reasonably modern NHS unit operating on the site. The main hospital itself is not used, but unfortunately for me is secured tight and has a resident caretaker, so I can't provide any internal photos!!
Newsham Hosp was in Belmont Rd on the other side St Margarets Church. I saw the old one burn down in 1961/62. Spectacular. Full of high fire escapes all around squirting water down on the large burning church.