Final images for Medical Landscapes project

These are the final images for the project, I have left off captions for now as I need to work on the final versions for presentation. That and they have all been mentioned before, save the last three in the series above. In order these are views of the Royal Oldham Hospital, site of the birth of the first test tube baby, Edward Jenners 'shed' where he discovered and inoculated against Smallpox and an area of Worcester where Charles Hastings built safe clean social housing for local artisans, he was also the founder of the BMI.

I admit now that the significance of the events photographed above far out way the short summery I have given so far, however I am planning text to accompany the work that will state a better case for each site and event. Once completed I will post another picture blog with captions and also a slide show with text. So please dont assume that this is the last version as it is.

Until then...

More Medical Landscapes

These two images are of Sir Howey park in Tredegar, South Wales. They show a memorial to Aneurin Bevan who used to hold his parliamentary constituency meetings on this hill top.

The next two images show St Nicholas Church in Marston, Oxfordshire where Norman Heatley and Howard Florey are buried. Both men were involved in the discovery of penicillin and although neither are household names compared to Alexander Fleming, they were responsible for taking Flemings bright idea and turning it into a usable and consistent drug. Like others featured in the project, the number of lives they saved is innumerable. 

This is the Kings Centre in Oxford, a community church run conference and meeting space. However in 1980 it was the home of Oxford Instruments Plc and was where the worlds first full body MRI scanner was built. Magnetic resonance imaging was recently described by Professor Robert Winston as one of the most important scientific advances in our lives. And you cant argue with a 'tash that good!

This is 'Pie Corner', now Cock Lane, and according to lore is where the great fire of London finished. It was also the site of the Fortune of War pub opposite the entrance to St Bartholomews Hospital, and was used by ' resurrectionists' for the display of drowned bodies, which were then selected by surgeons from across the road for use in teaching.

This is another view of Nye Bevans memorial in Tredegar.

The project is nearing to a close now, mainly due to university hand in dates. The next blog should include three more landscapes of equal importance to those already featured; Edward Jenners House, the Worcester of BMA founder Charles Hastings and the Royal Oldham Hospital.