The Sheffield Public Hospital and Dispensary : Short historical sketch.

  • Jackson, Arthur, 1844-1895.
Date:
1894
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Credit: The Sheffield Public Hospital and Dispensary : Short historical sketch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    The Sheffield Public Hospital & Dispensary. “ By and by the strong foot of the great Hospital will plant itself on this whole territory, and the private recollections which cling so tenaciously and fondly to the place and its habitations will have died with those who cherished them. Shall they ever live again in the memory of those who loved them here below ? What is this life without the poor accident which made it our own, and by which we identify ourselves ? Ah me ! I might like to be a winged chorister; but still it seems to me I should hardly be quite happy if I could not recall at will the old house with the long entry, and the white chamber and the little parlour, and the study, and the old books in uniforms.”—Oliver Wendell Holmes. July 27th, 1831. Decease of Benjamin Bailey, Esq., of Westfield House, aged 91.■—Sheffield Local Register. Westfield House, now where the Public Hospital and Dispensary stands ! Can we draw a picture of it as it was when Mr. Bailey first lived there ?—with nothing but corn fields and trees between it and Young Street on the one side, and between it and Red Hill on the other : with a farm house and field, with cattle pasturing, where Messrs. Hutton’s works now stand : with a country walk running to Broomhall, where Broomhall Street is now, to which the ancient name of Black Lamb’s walk was given.