Our town through time: a brief history of Chesterfield's original Royal Hospital

A heritage guide to Chesterfield with historian Philip Riden

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00:00Hello, I'm Philip Ryden, I'm the editor of the Victoria County History in Derbyshire

00:05and I have a long-standing interest in the history of Chesterfield, my hometown.

00:09I've been asked to say something about some of the more interesting buildings in the town centre.

00:13Behind me is the original building of 1859, of what became Chesterfield North Derbyshire Royal Hospital.

00:19Chesterfield didn't get a hospital until the 1850s, apart from the infirmary attached to the workhouse

00:26built in 1840, which was on Newwell Road and ended its days as Chesterfield Hospital.

00:32The Royal Hospital was a voluntary hospital until 1948.

00:36This building closed in 1984, when the hospital moved to the present site in Cairo.

00:42The building has since been converted to corporate offices, which is what remains today.

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