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Epsom Hospital is a teaching hospital in Epsom, Surrey, England. The hospital is situated on Dorking Road 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) south east of the centre of Epsom. It is managed by the Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust along with the nearby St Helier Hospital.
It runs two main hospitals: Epsom Hospital and St Helier Hospital. It also runs a chronic fatigue and pain clinic at Sutton Hospital. [1] The Trust was formed in 1999, bringing together four hospitals: Epsom, St Helier, Sutton and the former Queen Mary's Hospital for Children, Carshalton. [2]
The hospital has its origins in a facility established at Pembroke Cottages at Pikes Hill in April 1873. [2] It moved to Hawthorn Place in 1877 and to Alexandra Road in 1889. [ 2 ] Emily Davison died at the hospital after being hit by King George V 's horse Anmer at the 1913 Derby when she walked onto the track during the race.
It passes a crossroads with the Ewell terminus of the A232 and the B2200 before running past the North East Surrey College of Technology, then approaches a roundabout with Reigate Road and the A240. It heads towards Epsom and becomes Epsom Road, then East Street and passes Kiln Lane, an industrial area with a large Sainsbury's and various other ...
The end of the 1920s was peak time for the railway, which moved 15,000 tons of coal and 4,000 tons of general goods per year. In the 1930s road transport was improving for general deliveries, and the connection of Epsom to the National Grid meant the power station which needed maintenance was no longer needed; it was closed down in 1935.
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A ward at St Helier Hospital in 1943 The art deco entrance of St Helier Hospital floodlit at night in 2009. The hospital was commissioned in 1934 when Surrey County Council acquired a 999-year lease of 10 acres of land on the St Helier council estate which had been named in honour of Mary Jeune, Baroness St Helier, a prominent alderman on the London County Council. [1]