Bromhead Institution for Nurses and the Bromhead Nursing Home

[1] [2]The institute was based in the home of Mrs Anne Fector Bromhead in Greestone Road, Lincoln.

[1] The institute expanded and in 1887 the Red House was built on the junction of Nettleham Road and Church Lane as a memorial to Mrs Bromhead.

[3] They wore nurses caps with net ruches and two streamers down the back.

[3] This was the same nurses hat and tails as worn by sisters at The London Hospital where the Bromhead's third and fourth Lady Superintendents (also known as a matron) had trained under Eva Luckes.

[5] Essendon House, the former nurses home and offices is now St Barnabas Hospice.

Bromhead Hospital, Lincoln. "The Red House" was built in 1887and named after Mrs A.F. Bromhead, the founder. It was taken over by the NHS in 1948, but in 1981 became an independent hospital. Since 2001 it has been a private hospital and is called The Lincoln Hospital.
Essendon House which became the Bromhead Nurses' Home and institute offices in 1907, and is now St Barnabas Hospice, Lincoln.