Hospital – Frontline Ulster

Prefabricated Military Accommodation Part I – Early 20th Century

Original Research

The image above is a 1918 photograph of a Dechets barrack hut constructed by the Tarrant Company in France utilising recycled wood from boxes and crates (IWM Q6769 A hut made of old boxes and crates by women carpenters working at the Tarrant Hut Workshops, June 1918). The purpose of… Read More »Prefabricated Military Accommodation Part I – Early 20th Century

Site Visit – Belvoir Park Hospital

Northern Ireland, Visit Reports

Situated in the leafy suburbs of South Belfast, Belvoir Park Hospital has lain empty since 2006 when the remaining healthcare operations moved to the City Hospital. Belvoir opened 100 years earlier in 1906 as the Purdysburn Fever Hospital and had a long and fruitful history being the site of Northern Irelands… Read More »Site Visit – Belvoir Park Hospital