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Monument details
HER Number: | TQ 64 SW 234 |
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Type of record: | Monument |
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Name: | Pembury Hospital, Pembury |
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Summary
Site of former Pembury Hospital, formerly Sandhill Infirmary and Tonbridge Union Workhouse, VAD hospital during World War 1
Grid Reference: | TQ 6144 4142 |
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Map Sheet: | TQ64SW |
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Parish: | PEMBURY, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT |
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Monument Types
- HOSPITAL (Modern - 1914 AD to 1918 AD (at some time))
Full description
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Site of former Pembury Hospital, formerly Sandhill Infirmary and before that the Tonbridge Union Workhouse, was used as a Voluntary Aid detachment (VAD) Hospital during World War 1. Original hospital buildings were closed and demolished in 2010/11 and the replaced by the Tunbridge Wells Hospital on the same site.
Hazel Basford, 2004, Kent VAD - the work of voluntary aid detachments in Kent during the first World War (Unpublished document). SKE31644.
Sources and further reading
Cross-ref.
| Source description | --- | Unpublished document: Hazel Basford. 2004. Kent VAD - the work of voluntary aid detachments in Kent during the first World War. |