The facility was intended to commemorate the diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria and was commissioned to treat workers who had suffered accidents in the local mines.

[1] It was financed by the miners themselves, designed by Ronald Walker in the Arts and Crafts style and opened by Sir Archibald Edmonstone in April 1903.

[2] The facility joined the National Health Service in 1948 and was extended in 1974.

[1] A plaque was erected at the front of the building to commemorate its centenary in April 2003.

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