Parks · Northern Ireland
Musgrave Park Hospital
Musgrave Park Hospital in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
About
Musgrave Park Hospital is a place of interest in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
Musgrave Park Hospital is a specialist hospital in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It specialises in orthopaedics, rheumatology, sports medicine and rehabilitation of patients of all ages. These specialties are spread out across a large site in the leafy suburbs of South Belfast. The hospital is named after the 48 acres (19 ha) of adjacent municipal parkland known as Musgrave Park, first opened to the public in 1920. The hospital is managed by the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust.
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Background
History
The hospital opened in 1920. The United States Army constructed nissen huts on the site during the Second World War to create a temporary base for soldiers preparing to take part in the Normandy Landings. The hospital has played its part in the history of The Troubles. On 15 December 1980, Sean McKenna, one of the original seven hunger strikers was moved to Musgrave Park Hospital. On 2 November 1991, a bomb planted by the Provisional IRA exploded in the Military Wing at Musgrave Park hospital. Two soldiers were killed (one Royal Army Medical Corps, named Phil Cross, the other Royal Corps of Transport, named Craig Pantry) and 11 other people were injured, among them a five-year-old girl and…
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- Coordinates
- 54.5675, -5.9769
- Address
- Ballygammon, Belfast, County Antrim
- Established
- 1920
- Official site
- www.belfasttrust.hscni.net
Sources
- wikidata: Q6941171 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Musgrave Park Hospital (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Musgrave Park Hospital?
- Musgrave Park Hospital is in Northern Ireland, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.5675°, -5.9769°.
- When was Musgrave Park Hospital built?
- Musgrave Park Hospital dates to 1920.