Sanderson Hospital

The WJ Sanderson Home for Destitute and Crippled Children was established in Whickham in 1888 by William John Sanderson, a local philanthropist. The Gosforth site was opened by a Mrs. Hilton Philipson on 30 September 1897. In 1914 the hospital buildings was extended to allow for the treatment of more patients. Until the implementation of the National Health Service Act 1946 the hospital operated independently, and in July 1948 it came under the control of a Hospital Management committee as part of the National Health Service. While independent the hospital also had its own school based on-site. The site was used as the long-stay orthopaedic hospital for the area. In 1974 the hospital given…