Erection date: 25/9/2018
The site of the Oriolet Fruitarian Hospital (1895 - 1903) and its director Dr Josiah Oldfield (1863 - 1953)
Loughton Town Council, 2018
IG10, Staples Road, 91
The plaque is on the site of the hospital's open-air ward block.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Oriolet Hospital and Dr Oldfield
Founded and endowed by Arnold Frank Hills (1857–1927), MD of Thames Ironworks...
Lawyer, physician, and writer on health. And creator of hospitals - read on. ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Oriolet Hospital and Dr Oldfield
An Urban District Council from 1900 to 1933. It became part of Chigwell Urban...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Oriolet Hospital and Dr Oldfield
Marjorie 'Marge' Hewson (1943 - 2013) nursery nurse, worked for over 40 years at nearby Christ Church School and escorted children to sch...
Princess Anne is mentioned on the plaque but we suspect she did not actually visit this rather dismal and utilitarian corner of the stati...
Thames Tunnel Mill This is a listed mid 19th century former mill building and warehouse. It is one of the earliest warehouse residential ...
Unveiled exactly 109 years after he was born.
From the modern information board: "This garden covers the site of the church of St Olave, destroyed in 1666 by the Great Fire of London....
1638 King Charles I gave a licence for flesh, fowl and roots to be sold on Spittle Fields. The market lapsed during the Commonwealth but it was re-founded in 1682 by King Charles II. The existing ...
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