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A plaque from the Victoria Cottage Hospital  commemorating Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, 1897.1
A plaque from the Victoria Cottage Hospital commemorating Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, 1897.1

The wording on the plaque gives a brief history of the hospital to date:

1887 VICTORIA COTTAGE HOSPITAL

1897

 

FOR ROMFORD AND

 

SURROUNDING DISTRICT

 
  ERECTED AS A JUBILEE MEMENTO BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION  
1887 SITE GIVEN BY WILLIAM MASHITER, ESQ.  
  OPENED BY J. THEOBALD, ESQ. M.P., MAY 24TH, 1888  
  BUILDING COMMITTEE - CANON HITCHCOCK, CHAIRMAN, ALFRED WRIGHT, HON TREASR., FREDK. WILSON, HON SEC.  
  1893-4 ENLARGED AT THE SOLE EXPENSE OF WILLIAM MASHITER, ESQ.  
1897 DIAMOND JUBILEE COMMEMORATION FUND OF £845. RAISED  
  BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION.  
  COMMEMORATION COMMITTEE - FREDK. GREEN, J.P. CHAIRMAN MRS MCINTOSH, LADY OF THE MANOR, HON TREASR. JAMES FRASER, HON SEC.  
  HONORARY OFFICERS 1897-8  
 

WM. MASHITER PRESIDENT
ALFRED WRIGHT, J.P. MED OFFICER
ERNEST WINMILL TREASURER
FREDK. WILSON SECRETARY

TRUSTEES

J. W. LASHAM
E. J. COLYER
B. KEEBLE
N. T. N. KING
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COL HY HOLMES, D.L. J.P.
REVD. J. H. PEMBERTON
ALFRED WRIGHT, J.P.

1 In the possession of Havering Library Services, and photographed with their kind assistance.

 

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