History of Cassel Hospital

Materials created or compiled in the course of research on the Cassel Hospital, Ham, and the land on which it sits. Includes research notes on the history of the hospital site and its owners and tenants, drafts of articles by Evelyn Pritchard on the history of the Cassel Hospital site, newspaper cuttings related to the Cassel Hospital, a copy of the Richmond and Twickenham Times with information on hospitals in Richmond (26 January 1929), a chronology of owners of different parts of the site of the Cassel Hospital, a list of documents relating to the Cassel Hospital held at the Richmond Local History Collection, a copy of a history of the Cassel Hospital (5 March 1949), plans of the site of the Cassel Hospital and the surrounding area, a copy of a Gillray cartoon of Mrs Hobart, a sheet entitled 'Resume of Accommodation and Other Data', a 'Ham Library Quiz', and correspondence relating to Pritchard's research.

The first dated item is a letter dated 8 June 1992, and the last is a Daily Telegraph article dated 16 April 1994. The rest of the file is likely to have been created in the early 1990s.

The title on the original A4 document wallet was 'Folder 4: History of Cassel Hospital; Correspondence with English Heritage; Newspaper reference; Hobarts; Maps; Diagrams; Final Script'.