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Edmund Street

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Opening in 1891, the Birmingham & Midland Ear, Nose & Throat Hospital in Edmund Street is one of a handful of what we would now call ‘sepcialist’ hospitals that were constructed around the City Centre during the 19th Century. Designed by Jethro Cossins and F. B. Peacock, the building today cuts an impressive figure as can be seen above.
The hospital closed in 1989 with a move to concentrate all medical treatment into a small number of large hospitals in the suburbs – Queen Elizabeth, ebh etc


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Unfortunately, I was a patient there a few times for my ears and throat. Never liked going but they took good care of me!
 
Some history of Edmund Street (part of which was once called Harlow Street but by the 1760s was known as Edmund Street). The image below dates back to 1883: Council House in progress to the left and demolition due of the c1750s houses to the right. Viv.

2355A0ED-C2B7-4758-8980-1D6AFCACE5E3.jpegB05E2056-B0EC-4354-B657-033FF25632A6.jpegSource: British Newspaper Archive
 
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