London Bridge Hospital

Name :

London Bridge Hospital

Address  :

27 Tooley Street

Town  :

London

State  :

Greater London

Country  :

UK

Post Code:

SE1 2PR

Phone  :

44 0 20 7407 3100

Web URL  :

Available

Email  :

info.lbh@hcahealthcare.co.uk

Description

About Us
Internationally renowned for the highest standards of private healthcarequot

Welcome to London Bridge Hospital With advanced surgical and medical facilities and friendly professional staff we are committed to providing you with excellence across a wide range of specialties

London Bridge Hospital has been delivering high quality healthcare since 1986 The newlyrefurbished hospital overlooks the River Thames and Tower Bridge and is within easy reach of the City and southeastern counties With over one hundred ensuite air conditioned rooms we aim to make your stay as pleasant and as comfortable as possible and we are always happy to discuss any individual requirement that you may have

Whether you are an inpatient day case or outpatient you will be cared for by a team of professionals who are dedicated to ensuring you receive the best possible treatment All clinical staff are professionally registered and undergo a range of annual updates to ensure that all patients receive the utmost care and medical attention to bring about a speedy recovery

The comprehensive range of healthcare services available at London Bridge Hospital ensure that whatever your ailment you will always receive the best possible medical care If you would like to make an appointment please click here For any further information please call 44 020 7407 3100

Please note we do not specialise in Paediatric Care at the London Bridge Hospital and are unable to see or treat children under the age of 16 years Please visit our sister hospital The Portland Hospital who can treat patients under the age of 16

History

Chamberlains Wharf

The present Victorian Chamberlains Wharf building which houses the London Bridge Hospitals Main Building was built as a warehouse in the 1860s It replaced earlier warehouses which had been rebuilt several times and dated back to the seventeenth century Before that time the site had been occupied by one of the splendid ecclesiastic palaces the Inn of St Augustines Abbey which was turned into warehouses after Henry VIII closed down the monasteries and sold off church property The previous Chamberlains Wharf buildings were destroyed in the disastrous Great Fire of Tooley Street which burned out many hundreds of square feet of warehouses in 1861 Chamberlains was then rebuilt as a single building with the ground plan of the old multiple building lending to its particular shape on the entrance front

The earlier buildings were spared a fire in 1843 which destroyed all the buildings upstream including St Olaves Church The warehouses were built anew with the church being restored to its eighteenth century condition The warehouse was used for tea storage and goods from the Baltic

St Olaf House

St Olaf House which houses the London Bridge Hospitals Consulting and Administration Rooms was built as the Headquarters for Hays Wharf in 1931 This fine example of an Art Deco building was designed by the famous architect HS Goodhart Rendel and is one of his best known works It is a listed building with its wellknown river faccedilade and Doulton faience panels by Frank Dobson showing dock life and the unloading of goods Capital Labour and Commerce Its boardroom the heart of this Pool of London Wharfage Empire has been used in several television commercials including British Airways

The Chairman of Hays Wharf Sir David Burnett was also an artist who drew several scenes on the docks including the Chamberlains Wharf area As the docking industry moved downriver to Tilbury it was Sir David who started the move to a commercial development of the area with offices shops housing and the founding of the London Bridge Hospital

The site of St Olaf House had been occupied for many centuries by the historic St Olaves Church which was the parish church for the area and which remained through all the changes to the district right up to 1928 The tower has always been a landmark in the area through medieval times and was replaced by a fine new tower as part of its rebuilding in the eighteenth century to the designs of Henry Flitcroft a wellknown architect of the period

Emblem House Incorporating Denmark House

Emblem House and Denmark House which house the London Bridge Hospitals Outpatient Centre were both built in 1900 as shipping and general offices The larger Emblem House has an interesting faccedilade all in faience and Denmark House has a large intricate stone sculpture at roof level showing a merchant ship This is typical of the offices that served the adjacent wharfs all bringing in many varieties of food products so much so that this side of the Pool of London was known as the Larder of London

The extensive cellars were used for storage including the Czar of Russias silver reserves and later that of Lenins which were shipped out of the building when necessary in a plainlooking bread delivery van

2933 Tooley Street

Nos 2933 Tooley Street which house the London Bridge Hospitals Womens Centre were built in 1860 as shipping offices Through much of the later nineteenth century most of Tooley Street was fronted by very similar fourstorey buildings

These were progressively replaced by the end of the century with huge sixstorey warehouse fronts on the north side of Tooley Street and on the south side by the everwidening railway viaduct to the busy London Bridge Station

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Tooley Street progressively became a dock road serving the giant warehouses of the Pool of London whereas before it had been a route of pilgrimage to Bermondsey Abbey crossing various fishfilled streams fronted by a whole series of large church palaces and the riverside town houses of the church dignitaries