Original upload date: Fri, 04 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Mon, 06 Dec 2021 08:20:19 GMT
Nottingham Women's Hospital, colloquially known as "Peel Street" to residents of Nottinghamshire, was a specialist maternity hospital for women which closed in November 1981. The last baby to be born
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at the hospital was Louise Michelle Baker, on November 15th 1981. Records of the hospital have been deposited at Manuscripts and Special Collections, The University of Nottingham. Medical Services were transferred to Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham.
The hospital was inaugurated as a result of a merger between Castle Gate Hospital and Samaritan Hospital, both also in Nottingham. It was viewed at the time that maintaining two separate hospitals was duplicating work, and therefore unnecessary. The new hospital operational in 1923, and then officially opened on 5 November 1929. Patients began to enter in 1930.
The pub is now part of the national pub chain JD Wetherspoons. The Public House takes its name from the place where babies were said to arrive.
