Lady RMay 29, 2026 at 12:45 PM Hats off to Kings College Hospital for their rooftop garden designed for use by their Intensive Care patients to enjoy flowers and herb smells and scenery from their beds, and especially fresh air - their equipment can be hooked up to the units provided. This is a mental game changer 👏🏻❤️👏🏻❤️ Well done to all who contributed to the 2 million pound build be it by Will donations or via fund raisingwhich is why it took a decade (I think) to come to fruition.
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AmbridgesMrsPMay 29, 2026 at 2:04 PM Sounds wonderful, doesn’t it. When listening to the news I was imagining being up there and looking down onto the surroundings, particularly the very close by park and the trees wherein. My eldest G child was born there and I went to school near by, so know the area well, and before I left London I was volunteering there too.
KPnutsMay 29, 2026 at 7:09 PM Having grown up in that neck of the woods it was where I ended up after various scrapes & assorted out patients appointments. Not sure about the air quality though, although I thoroughly approve of the idea
AmbridgesMrsPMay 29, 2026 at 8:44 PM The idea, though is not so new. I have memories of the open air hospitals, some of which were still functioning in the London area when I was young. Though obviously this is a huge leap forward from those hospitals of old which i believe were mainly for tubercular patients.
Lady RMay 29, 2026 at 10:22 PM As in Treloar Hospital Alton where patients used have their beds wheeled out onto the balconies! Those were the days.
AmbridgesMrsPMay 30, 2026 at 1:30 AM Precisely Lady R
ArcherphileMay 30, 2026 at 9:59 AM It reminded me of those old sanatoria they had for TB patients, where they could be wheeled out onto a verandah or garden for the fresh air. But as KP says, I'm not sure rising London air would be so healthy. A lovely idea for future hospital designs though.
A random roof garden
ReplyDeleteLady RMay 29, 2026 at 12:45 PM
ReplyDeleteHats off to Kings College Hospital for their rooftop garden designed for use by their Intensive Care patients to enjoy flowers and herb smells and scenery from their beds, and especially fresh air - their equipment can be hooked up to the units provided. This is a mental game changer 👏🏻❤️👏🏻❤️
Well done to all who contributed to the 2 million pound build be it by Will donations or via fund raisingwhich is why it took a decade (I think) to come to fruition.
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AmbridgesMrsPMay 29, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Sounds wonderful, doesn’t it.
When listening to the news I was imagining being up there and looking down onto the surroundings, particularly the very close by park and the trees wherein.
My eldest G child was born there and I went to school near by, so know the area well, and before I left London I was volunteering there too.
KPnutsMay 29, 2026 at 7:09 PM
Having grown up in that neck of the woods it was where I ended up after various scrapes & assorted out patients appointments. Not sure about the air quality though, although I thoroughly approve of the idea
AmbridgesMrsPMay 29, 2026 at 8:44 PM
ReplyDeleteThe idea, though is not so new.
I have memories of the open air hospitals, some of which were still functioning in the London area when I was young.
Though obviously this is a huge leap forward from those hospitals of old which i believe were mainly for tubercular patients.
Lady RMay 29, 2026 at 10:22 PM
As in Treloar Hospital Alton where patients used have their beds wheeled out onto the balconies! Those were the days.
AmbridgesMrsPMay 30, 2026 at 1:30 AM
Precisely Lady R
ArcherphileMay 30, 2026 at 9:59 AM
It reminded me of those old sanatoria they had for TB patients, where they could be wheeled out onto a verandah or garden for the fresh air. But as KP says, I'm not sure rising London air would be so healthy. A lovely idea for future hospital designs though.