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
The wooden cross atop the building supports a neon cross, wired to an electrical box so rusty that we doubt it still lights the way for N...
Broad-leaf Cockspur Hawthorn (Crataegus x prunifolia) planted in memory of Alistair David Berkley, law lecturer in the Polytechnic of Cen...
This 1895 map has some remarkable detailing of the building (a wide spiral staircase and elsewhere castellated walls with, in Gothic scri...
Lane and Orpen were distant cousins and rented this house together in 1907. The Lane plaque is above, Orpen below, with a little window b...
2021: Spitalfields Life has a photo-filled post showing the interior of this house which looks unchanged since Garthwaite left.
Botanist and horticulturist. Born at Catton, near Norwich. He was appointed assistant secretary to the Horticultural Sociery of London in 1827, and in 1827 was Professor of Botany at University Col...
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