History of st catherines hospital birkenhead

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Clatterbridge Hospital SJ 318 822 Historic England Building Files 102402 (North Site, former Wirral Joint Fever Hospital) and 102401 (South Site, former Wirral Union Workhouse)

Clatterbridge Hospital is now a large sprawling site, largely composed of post-war NHS hospital buildings.

None of the original workhouse survives, but there was at least one block remaining of infectious diseases hospital in 2023 – to the south of St John’s Hospice in the north-east corner of the site. The south range of Willow House is also of pre-war date – possibly late 1920s or early ’30s, as is Elm House, presumably built as the nurses’ home.

Clatterbridge Workhouse was built in 1836-7 for the Wirral Union.

William Cole was the architect, who also designed the workhouse for Winchester. A separate infirmary and a chapel were built in the 1880s-90s, to the north-east of the main workhouse range, and further wing was added along with various other ancill