Victoria Eye Hospital | |
Map Type: | Herefordshire |
Location: | Eign Street |
Region: | Hereford |
State: | England |
Country: | UK |
Coordinates: | 52.0566°N -2.7223°W |
Healthcare: | NHS |
Type: | Eye hospital |
Founded: | 1882 |
Closed: | 2002 |
The Victoria Eye Hospital was a health facility located on Eign Street in Hereford, England. The main building has since been converted into apartments.
The facility was established by Francis Woodley Lindsay, a surgeon, in rented premises in Commercial Road as the Herefordshire and South Wales Eye and Ear Institution in 1882.[1] It moved to permanent premises in Eign Street as the Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital in 1888[1] and, after being renamed the Victoria Eye Hospital in 1923, joined the National Health Service in 1948.[2] After services transferred to the new Hereford County Hospital in 2002,[3] the Victoria Eye Hospital closed and has since been converted into apartments.[1]