Two films preserve moving images and later photographs of the Queen’s Hospital for Children, its treatments, buildings and Bexhill home.
This promotional film was made for the the Queen's Hospital for Children (later the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children) in 1939 by British Pictorial Films. The film features various procedures including the use X-ray, oxygen bell and physiotherapy exercises, and shows the hospital's premises at Hackney Road, London and "The Little Folk's Home" in Bexhill, East Sussex. Source: Barts Health NHS Trust Archives and Museum catalogue reference: RLHfilm/16/2.
This video shows a series of photographs of the hospital from the 1920s up to about 2010. It includes images of the interior and exterior of the building prior to their redevelopment into housing. Source: eastlondonlines.
The Queen’s Hospital for Children, 1939
A promotional film made for the Queen’s Hospital for Children in 1939. It shows medical procedures, the Hackney Road premises and the Little Folks Home at Bexhill.
Source: Barts Health NHS Trust Archives and Museum, RLHfilm/16/2
The hospital in photographs
A sequence of photographs showing the hospital from the 1920s to about 2010, including its interior and exterior before redevelopment.