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Isolation Hospital

The Isolation Hospital, Tolpits Lane, opened 1896

The Holywell Isolation Hospital circa 1977 taken from the school field opposite




Photos above and below - courtesy Watford Central Library
















Photographs by Lynda Bullock unless otherwise stated

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