Postcards from Tower Hospital
A number of postcard photographs were taken of staff and patients at Tower Hospital. A selection are shown below.
Information on staff and patients, who came from all parts of the UK and overseas, is scarce. Please get in touch via our Contact Page if you feel you have something to add.
Information on staff and patients, who came from all parts of the UK and overseas, is scarce. Please get in touch via our Contact Page if you feel you have something to add.
No. 8 Ward, The Tower Hospital, Rainhill
Photos above reproduced with kind permission of John Hopkins and the late Tom Rolt
To see a 'then and now' version of the above picture go to the Rainhill Civic Society website
Below is another picture entitled "Some of our Brave Boys from the trenches"
The photograph below is entitled 'From the Big Push to The Tower, Rainhill'. The Big Push was usually associated with the Battle of the Somme in 1916 and it is assumed the photograph shows soldiers wounded at that battle. Further photographs below also relate to the Somme. It is interesting to note that almost all of the soldiers still wear a shirt and tie!
If you look closely at the bottom right of this photograph you can just make out a bulldog being held by a soldier wearing a hat. This bulldog makes several appearances in Tower Hospital photographs and was clearly a favourite of the soldiers.
If you look closely at the bottom right of this photograph you can just make out a bulldog being held by a soldier wearing a hat. This bulldog makes several appearances in Tower Hospital photographs and was clearly a favourite of the soldiers.
Below are further postcards showing the soldiers and nurses from The Tower (including the bulldog) and another showing the 'Brave Sons' of Australia
A group of soldiers outside Tower Hospital with the words 'Kind Thoughts' on the postcard.
It's not clear who, but someone has a 21st birthday party at Tower Hospital.
