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GERMAN HOSPITAL, E8
Borough Hackney Size 16 flats Client Windmill Chase Redevelopment of the Grade 2 Listed former German Hospital into 16 residential apartments. Windmill Chase carried out extensive restoration work on the façade and entrance areas. The hospital was established in 1845 to offer free treatment to London's then large German-speaking community which had a significant presence in the East End. During WW1 The German staff remained at the hospital, despite strong anti-German feelings from the local population. During WW2 the German staff were arrested in 1940 and interned on the Isle of Man as enemy aliens. English staff took over the running of the hospital and in 1948 it joined the NHS as a general hospital, with 217 beds. From 1974, during one of the many NHS reorganisations it became a psychiatric and psychogeriatric hospital. By 1976 it was partially empty and finally closed in 1987 with 95 beds. Its services were transferred to the new Homerton Hospital |
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