Fairfield Hospital Video

This video was filmed in the late 1980's. Apart from the main hospital building it shows now rare shots of the social club, the huts, and the WRVS shop. The link below will take you to the video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11QUsF5AeEs

Thanks go to Martyn Dilley for his background information about the content of the video:

"The video film you have uploaded to YouTube is interesting. The first part is of the original Fairfield Hospital (the main building was still 'Three Counties'). The red brick building was originally a couple of general hospital wards used during the war. They eventually became wards F9 and M11 (female ward to the left and male to the right). The line of cars was the central part when the whole campus site was renamed ‘Fairfield Hospital’.

"The cedar-wood building I believe was the sports hut and the staff social club. Then the film shows the hutted wards (the 'huts'). These were originally part of the London Chest Hospital / Brompton Hospital but became wards of the main hospital when renamed. They were divided into corridors A-B and C-D, and numbered 1-6. The main building is obvious, again with male wards to the left of the main entrance and female to the right. The wards were all numbered Male 1 being the nearest to the centre to Male 10 the furthest away, same for the female wards. The lodge was at the rear entrance facing the artisan workshops and the church".