Nottingham Castle Gate Hospital

Castle Gate Hospital was a women's hospital at 29-31 Castle Gate in Nottingham, England.

Castle Gate Hospital
29-31 Castle Gate (on the left)
Location within Nottinghamshire
Geography
LocationNottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom
Coordinates52.9509°N 1.1511°W / 52.9509; -1.1511
Organisation
Care systemNHS England
TypeWomen's Hospital
History
Opened1875
Closed1923
Links
ListsHospitals in England

History

The hospital included an outpatient department which opened on 24 September 1875 and in the first year of opening 364 patients were seen with 2,271 attendances. There were initially only 2 inpatient beds but the number of these had increased to 8 by 1 July 1876, with reports of beds being almost completely filled thereafter for that first year with 33 admissions. All patients had to pay fees with the total revenue of £55 9s. 3d. from outpatients, £42 14s. 6d. from inpatients, making a total of £98 3s. 9d in 1875-1876. In that first year it was reported that there were no deaths.[1] Early references to the Castle Gate hospital named it simply as Nottingham Hospital for Women.[1]

The hospital's opening was met with some "local professional annoyance", with the BMJ noting that "so quietly was it managed, that, until an announcement appeared one morning in the Nottingham journals stating the fact that a new Hospital for Women had been opened the day before, scarcely a medical man in the neighbourhood had heard that it was likely to come into existence".[2]

By 1886, the year after the Samaritan Hospital for Women opened, the Annual Reports were referring to expenses exceeding income even though patients were reporting coming from as far as Leicester and Derby. The outpatient department had 697 patients with 3,975 attendances and 75 inpatients.[3]

In 1923 the hospital merged with Samaritan Hospital in Raleigh Street to become the Nottingham Women's Hospital in Peel Street.[4][5]

The buildings were grade-II listed on 11 August 1952[6] and housed the Radio Trent and Trent FM from 1975 to 2007.[7] Following an investment of over £5m and 2 years of work, NGY myplace opened on 10 April 2012 offering a range of services for young people including a fitness suite, recording studio, counselling and health services.[8]

29-31 Castle Gate is reputedly haunted by several ghosts including a woman resembling a matron, an elderly woman dressed in black, a man in military uniform, young officers of the cavalry regiment and a soldier riding a white horse through the stairwells. In the 1990s, whilst Trent FM broadcast it was reported that the heavy soundproof doors would open and close themselves.[9][10]

References
  1. Nottingham Hospital for Women, Nottinghamshire Guardian (London, England), Friday, October 20, 1876; pg. 3; Issue 1630.
  2. The Hospital for Women at Nottingham, The Week, British Medical Journal 1875; 2:496
  3. Nottingham Hospital for Women, Nottinghamshire Guardian (London, England), Friday, February 19, 1886; pg. 2; Issue 2126.
  4. "Records of Nottingham Hospital for Women". Manuscripts and Special Collections, The University of Nottingham. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
  5. "Nottingham Hospital for Women, Nottingham". National Archives. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
  6. Historic England. "29 and 31, Castle Gate (1271438)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 17 June 2013.
  7. "Former Radio Trent building starts new life as youth centre". BBC. 10 April 2012. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
  8. "HHB Kits Out New £5m NGY myplace Nottingham Youth Centre". Live Production TV. 14 July 2012. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
  9. "Paranormal Database". Paranormal Nottingham. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
  10. Batchelor, Keiron (19 April 2010). "The ghostly truth about 29-31 Castle Gate". Nottingham City Council.
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