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Mar 13, 2010 · Hackney Hospital (1750-1995), formed from the infirmary at Homerton Workhouse and eventually closed when the functions were absorbed into the Homerton Hospital (part extant); St Leonard’s Hospital (1872-present day), which grew out of the infirmary at the St Leonard Shoreditch Workhouse in the 18th century and became a general hospital ...
South Hackney church was built in 1848; and is in the early English style. West Hackney church is a fine modern edifice. The free English church, with 2,300 sittings, was erected since 1862. A Congregational chapel, with about 3,000 sittings, was built in 1869.
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Hackney was a parish in the historic county of Middlesex. The parish church of St John-at-Hackney was built in 1789, replacing the nearby former 16th-century parish church dedicated to St Augustine (pulled down in 1798). The original tower of that church was retained to hold the bells until the new church could be strengthened; the bells were ...
In 1987 the City and Hackney Health Authority opened a new hospital, the Homerton, and the general services from Hackney Hospital were gradually transferred there. Only psychiatric and geriatric services remained at Hackney, and in 1995 these too were transferred to Homerton. The site is scheduled for closure and demolition at the end of 1995 ...
Homerton Hospital will formally change its name on Friday 1 April 2022. The new name will be Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, which was agreed upon in a staff poll. Homerton’s current formal name is Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, which has existed since it became the first of 10 foundation trusts to be set up ...
51.543°N 0.059°W. / 51.543; -0.059. Hackney is a district in East London, England, forming around two-thirds of the area of the modern London Borough of Hackney, to which it gives its name. It is 4 miles (6.4 km) northeast of Charing Cross and includes part of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Historically it was within the county of Middlesex .
In 1986, when the new Homerton Hospital opened, services from the Hackney Hospital were gradually moved there. The first 50 patients were transferred to the new hospital on 5th July 1987. In 1990 the Hospital had 336 beds for geriatric and psychiatric patients. Some 244 beds were retained until 1995, when they too transferred to an extension at ...
