Erith and District Hospital

Its former X-Ray Department, which is located underground, is a Grade II listed building.

[1] The facility has its origins in a couple of cottages on Crayford Road which were converted for clinical use as the Erith, Crayford, Belvedere, and Abbey Wood Hospital in 1871.

[2] It moved to new facilities in Erith High Street in 1875 and to purpose-built premises in Park Crescent, which were officially opened by the Prince of Wales, in 1924.

[2] It was extended in 1933 and an underground hospital, operated as part of the Emergency Medical Service, was built in 1938 and was in use throughout the Second World War.

[2] It joined the National Health Service as Erith and District Hospital in 1948[3] and a new outpatient department was completed in 1954.