TO accompany the article on the other Nostalgia page we show here pictures of the hospital in High Wycombe from the 1950/60s.
At this time it was undergoing transformation from the War Memorial Hospital which was funded by donations and fund-raising campaigns and opened in 1923.
Following the formation of the National Health Service in 1948 the need for a larger more modern hospital was soon recognised but it took until the early 1960s for this to be built.
Top: Nurses singing carols as Matron holds a lantern in a ward at Wycombe General Hospital, 1965.
Middle left: An aquarium was donated to the War Memorial Hospital by the High Wycombe Aquarist Society, October 1952.
Middle right: When film star Diana Dors, known as the “Blond Bombshell, opened a new superstore in Frogmoor in May 1956 she was presented with a very large iced cake. This was then taken to the Hospital where she presented a slice of the cake to each patient and member of the staff.
Bottom left: This picture shows a model of the new Hospital and the nurses’ accommodation in Barracks Road, High Wycombe. The buildings of the old War Memorial Hospital can just be made out, they are greyed-out, c.1960.
Bottom right: A new operating theatre was installed at the War Memorial hospital in 1957, here we see Sister Worley showing the equipment to three visitors.
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