Photograph - Mono (Document ID: 100751)
Exterior views of Lodge entrance, St John's Hospital, Gibbet Street, Halifax, West Yorkshire.
Author: Mr Wood
Date: not dated
Location: Halifax
Format: Photograph - Mono
Document ID: 100751
Library ID: 083252
St John's Hospital was originally built as a hospital to serve Halifax Union Workhouse, opened in 1840. The hospital was known as St Luke's from 1891. A new St Luke's Hospital was built in 1901 to house the bedridden patients, this site later became the Halifax General. The hospital on Gibbet Street was then named St John's.
The building was closed in 1966 and demolished in April 1972.
