Although starting life arranged symmetrically either side of what was, at the time, the Foundling Hospital, these two squares are rather different today as the
Medicine and Camden This post lists the blogs that have been created on the Camden Guides blog site under the Medicine and Camden theme, divided
London today has 35,000 acres of public green space equivalent to 40 per cent of its surface area. But if you walk north of Chalk
On becoming editor of these blogs, I inherited the foregoing title and no-one to write it. At first I thought it was probably a null
Today there are few people who haven’t heard of the world renowned Great Ormond Street Hospital for children. Just off Queen Square in Bloomsbury, the
Here’s an attention grabbing title, and in a roundabout way of maintaining the theme of Medicine in Camden, this blog is all about paying tribute
On the south-western edge of the borough of Camden on the border between Fitzrovia and Marylebone stands a historic building which served the poor and
If you have been reading Camden Guides blogs in recent weeks you will have seen the rich history it has with medicine. Today it is
Dr Mead of Bloomsbury is best known for his work on smallpox and with the Foundling Hospital https://foundlingmuseum.org.uk/about/our-history/. My aim here is to remember some
The London Borough of Camden is absolutely brimming in medical history. Even today it is still its home to hospitals and clinics, both publicly funded
Located in the heart of Camden, just next to St Pancras Station and the British Library, sits the UK’s foremost medical research institute. Opened by
A previous post looked at the medical aspects of Queen Square in Bloomsbury. This post does the same for the very attractive Georgian Fitzroy Square