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Westwood Cross is situated on the site of the former Haine Hospital, which closed in June 1997 and was demolished in 2003. Construction required filling of a 10 metres (33 ft) deep railway cutting. [3] [8] [7] Developers claimed that Westwood Cross created 1,500 jobs in the Broadstairs area. [9]
Haine Hospital opened as an isolation hospital in 1902. [2] A 2015 car park collapse beneath the Westwood Cross Primark store revealed underground tunnels believed to have been constructed during World War I training exercises. Researchers suggested they were subsequently used as air raid shelters for servicemen at the hospital and then sealed ...
Following the calamitous storm of 1748, a petition was sent to Parliament to build a safe haven at Ramsgate for vessels navigating the Thanet coast and the Goodwin Sands. Despite fierce opposition to the idea from Sandwich, the required act was eventually passed and work started on the port in 1760.
Thanet has a large hospital: the Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital, known as the QEQM. [35] Extension work which started in 2007 has made the QEQM a major hospital site. As of July 2010, overall indicators of health were poor for Thanet: [36] [needs update] Health is worse in Thanet than in England on average
The hospital has its origins in the Margate Cottage Hospital which was established at Victoria Road in Margate in 1876. [1] In the 1920s it was decided to relocate the hospital to its current site in St Peters Road. [1] The new facility was opened by Prince and Princess Arthur of Connaught as the Margate and District General Hospital in July ...
The Thanet Loop is a circular bus route which operates on the Isle of Thanet peninsula ... It also calls at Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital and Westwood ...
She was taken over by the Royal Navy and designated as a hospital ship and made her way from Newhaven to Dieppe. Throughout May 1940 she made several trips to and back carrying hundreds of wounded. On 18 May, a bomb dropped nearby HMHS Maid of Kent but she was unable to relocate, three days later on 21 May, a bomb from the Luftwaffe air raid ...
St Augustine's Hospital was a psychiatric hospital in Chartham, Kent, England. It was founded as the second, or East, Kent County Asylum in 1872. In 1948 the hospital became part of the National Health Service and was renamed St Augustine's Hospital. The hospital gained notoriety in the 1970s when it was the subject of a committee of inquiry ...