Whipps Cross - Stories from the War Hospital

Eastside Stories

May 18, 201512:10Society & Culture

Whipps Cross University Hospital in the London Borough of Waltham Forest has an illustrious past spanning the whole of the 20th century: from it's earliest origins as the West Ham Infirmary in 1903, to the birth of such...

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