UNDATED WW1 REAL PHOTOGRAPH POSTCARD OF WOUNDED NEW ZEALAND SOLDIERS.
HORNCHURCH HOSPITAL, ESSEX, ENGLAND.
Condition: A black and white real photo postcard of a group of 1/NZEF soldiers convalescing at Hornchurch Hospital, Essex, England. Inked on the reverse ''Feeding the lions at Hornchurch'. Photograph is in used condition. The pictures refer and are to be taken as part of the item description. From a small hoard.
Historical note: Grey Towers Convalescent Hospital, Grey Towers Hospital (Hornchurch, Essex, England), was a New Zealand Convalescent Hospital for wounded New Zealand soldiers in the First World War. previously it was a crenellated mansion with 85 acres of grounds on Hornchurch Road in Hornchurch, England, built in 1876 by a local brewery owner, Lt. col. Henry Holmes. The house was put up for sale in June 1914 after the death of the owners.
During the First World War it was purchased by the Army Council. From November 1914 it was used as a military depot, housing first the 23rd Royal Fusiliers and then the 26th Middlesex Regiment. In January 1916 it was decided that Grey Towers would become the command depot of the New Zealand Contingent, although was later changed, and from July 1916 it was used as the New Zealand Convalescent Hospital, with 1,500 beds.
In the interwar period Hornchurch developed as a suburb of London and land was required for house building. Grey Towers was demolished in 1931. The driveway to the house is now a road of suburban houses called Grey Towers Avenue and the entrance gates were moved to Hylands Park. Towers Cinema opened on part of the site on 3 August 1935. Some residential streets in South Hornchurch were named after places in New Zealand by Hornchurch Urban District Council in 1947 in reference to the use of the house. The two lodges, built in the same crenellated style as the house survived to the 1960s and were used as dwellings.
Source: wikiwand.com/en/Grey_Towers
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