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Address Walthamstow, London E17 3HF, UK Similar Northwood Tower, Vestry House Museum, Lloyd Park, Snaresbrook tube station, Whipps Cross University | ||
Thorpe Coombe Hospital is a psychiatric unit and former maternity hospital in Walthamstow, north-east London, and part of North East London NHS Foundation Trust.
History
The hospital was opened as a maternity hospital in 1934, making use of part of a mansion which had been owned by Octavius Wigram. It ceased maternity facilities in 1973 and was subsequently used as a nurses' home, then a treatment centre for Alzheimer's disease patients, and latterly an out-patients and in-patient service psychiatric hospital.
Never a large hospital (as a maternity hospital it had 70 beds), today it predominately houses administrative staff: it is the base for the local community mental health team. It does however still offer some in-patient service, which comprises two wards for elderly patients with mental health problems.