Out-patients’ Department, Bradford Children’s Hospital

HOSPITAL EXTENSION, BRADFORD - A new out-patients’ department is to be built as an extension to the Bradford Children’s Hospital. The new department is to be erected at the east end of the hospital grounds, quite detached from the main block, with frontages to Welbury-drive and Bertram-road. On the ground floor there will be a vestibule, a waiting-hall, capable of seating 150 to 200 persons, and an inner hall adjoining, having a registration-room, an operating-room, and a dispensary, all opening directly upon it. On the upper floor there is to be a house for the caretaker, who will act as lodgekeeper for the whole institution, and the basement will include a drugstore and heating chamber. It is estimated that the cost, including fittings and adaptation of the rooms at present in use for out-patients, will amount to £1,700. The building is to be constructed from plans which have been prepared by Mr. James Ledingham. The following are the contractors: —Excavators’, masons’, and bricklayers’ work, Charles Booth & Son; carpenters’ and joiners’ work, Greenwood Brothers; plumbers’ and glaziers’ work, Gabriel Jackson; slaters’ work. George Wilkinson; plasterers’ work, Thomas Bolton; painters’ work, James Lynn. [Builder 31 December 1904 page 704]

EXTENSION OF BRADFORD CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL - Viscount Mountgarret opened on the 2nd inst. the new out-patients’ department of the Bradford Children’s Hospital. The new building, which has been erected from the plans of Mr. James Ledingham, is situated quite close to Bertram-road, on land which formed part of the grounds of the hospital, the object in making it a separate block being that it should not interfere with any future development of the older building. It comprises a waiting-hall, capable of accommodating 200 patients, with registration, consulting, and operating rooms, a dispensary and drug store, and the curator’s residence. In style it is in keeping with the other hospital buildings. The fittings are of pitch-pine varnished. It is estimated that the cost of the building, including fittings and the adaptation of the old outpatients’ department to other uses, will amount to about £1,900. [Builder 12 August 1905 page 189]