Castleford, Normanton and District Hospital
Hospital in West Yorkshire, England
Hospital in West Yorkshire, England
53°43′13″N 1°22′12″W / 53.7202°N 1.3699°W / 53.7202; -1.3699The Castleford, Normanton and District Hospital was a health facility in Lumley Street, Castleford, West Yorkshire, England. It was managed by South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
History
The facility was commissioned in 1924: it was available to patients from 1926 but not officially opened by Princess Mary until 23 August 1929.[1] During the 1930s a significant amount of its funding came from Henry Briggs, Son and Co., a local coal mining business.[2] It joined the National Health Service in 1948.[3] A new 120-bed mental health unit opened in the 1970s.[4]
After services transferred to Pontefract Hospital, the hospital closed in 2017.[5] The buildings were demolished in summer 2018 and the site was subsequently developed by Persimmon for residential use.[6]
References
- ^ "1929 - A busy day for Princess Mary". The Borough of Castleford. Retrieved 28 January 2020.
- ^ Dintenfass, Michael (1992). Managing Industrial Decline: The British Coal Industry Between the Wars. Ohio State University Press. p. 121. ISBN 978-0814205693.
- ^ "Castleford, Normanton and District Hospital". National Archives. Retrieved 28 January 2020.
- ^ Ham, Christopher (1981). Policy-making in the National Health Service: A Case Study of the Leeds Regional Hospital Board. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 70. ISBN 978-0333291375.
- ^ "Hospital site could become 100 houses". 6 March 2016. Retrieved 28 January 2020.
- ^ "Pensioner's life made a misery by dust from new housing development". Pontefract and Castleford Express. 3 August 2018. Retrieved 28 January 2020.
