SEEN here in 1965, this was the nurses’ home serving the nearby Keighley and District Victoria Hospital, opened in Cartmel Road in July, 1937.
Its official opener was Sir Donald Horsfall, a trustee of Victoria Hospital, who was welcomed by a nurses’ guard of honour and who – in those days before the National Health Service – praised the fundraising work of a Workpeople’s Collection Committee.
After the demise of Victoria Hospital, the home became an ambulance training centre in 1974, providing accommodation for 52 students and five staff, with an ambulance garage of four bays.
This closed at the end of 1988, when ambulance training moved to Wakefield.
The buildings soon slipped into an all-too-familiar pattern of vandalised dereliction until gutted by fire in 1992.
The photograph has been supplied by Bill Palmer, of Shann Avenue, Keighley.
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