Crimscott Street
Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2017 1:00 pm
Grange Road and Crimscott Street
Bermondsey Medical Mission for Women and Children
The Bermondsey Medical Mission was Established in 1904 by Dr Selina Fox MBE, MD (1871 - 1958), who had become qualified in 1899. A typical pioneer woman doctor, she took up her first post at the Missionary Training School, in Riley Street, Bermondsey.
After taking up a post in India, where she could not stand the climate, she returned to England in 1901, to the Riley Street Mission. She worked from the Mission, to treat the people of Bermondsey, but the Mission found the cost too expensive and did not want to run a Mission in Bermondsey.
In 1904 Dr Fox asked to be released from her contract with the Mission and decided to form her own Mission. A Committee was formed to find a suitable property and No 44 Grange Road, was leased with an option to purchase. The house had a small garden, burnt out factory, and ruined stable. The project was completed in 1904 and the Bermondsey Medical Mission was built on the site of the old factory and stable. The entire workforce for the Mission consisted of women.
In 1909, after an appeal for money was launched, the property was purchased, also with a site in Crimscott Street. Bermondsey Medical Mission Hospital was officially opened in May 1929.
The Hospital joined the NHS in 1948, but in 1962 the Health Authority decided that the hospital was inconvenient to run and permission was given for the Mission to purchase it back from the NHS.
Renamed "Lena Fox House", it became a nursing home for the elderly, but again high costs forced it to close in 1992 and in 1994 Lena Fox House became a hostel for homeless young people, run by the Shaftesbury Society until it was taken over by a charity for the homeless, St Mungo's.
Note: The full text about Bermondsey Medical Mission can be found on
eztis.myzen.co.uk/alphabeticallist.html
Bermondsey Medical Mission for Women and Children
Bermondsey Medical Mission for Women and Children
The Bermondsey Medical Mission was Established in 1904 by Dr Selina Fox MBE, MD (1871 - 1958), who had become qualified in 1899. A typical pioneer woman doctor, she took up her first post at the Missionary Training School, in Riley Street, Bermondsey.
After taking up a post in India, where she could not stand the climate, she returned to England in 1901, to the Riley Street Mission. She worked from the Mission, to treat the people of Bermondsey, but the Mission found the cost too expensive and did not want to run a Mission in Bermondsey.
In 1904 Dr Fox asked to be released from her contract with the Mission and decided to form her own Mission. A Committee was formed to find a suitable property and No 44 Grange Road, was leased with an option to purchase. The house had a small garden, burnt out factory, and ruined stable. The project was completed in 1904 and the Bermondsey Medical Mission was built on the site of the old factory and stable. The entire workforce for the Mission consisted of women.
In 1909, after an appeal for money was launched, the property was purchased, also with a site in Crimscott Street. Bermondsey Medical Mission Hospital was officially opened in May 1929.
The Hospital joined the NHS in 1948, but in 1962 the Health Authority decided that the hospital was inconvenient to run and permission was given for the Mission to purchase it back from the NHS.
Renamed "Lena Fox House", it became a nursing home for the elderly, but again high costs forced it to close in 1992 and in 1994 Lena Fox House became a hostel for homeless young people, run by the Shaftesbury Society until it was taken over by a charity for the homeless, St Mungo's.
Note: The full text about Bermondsey Medical Mission can be found on
eztis.myzen.co.uk/alphabeticallist.html
Bermondsey Medical Mission for Women and Children