Birchington Collection (#2)

Patients in the Mess Room, Quex Park
Belgian Patients in the Mess Room, Quex Park. The Mess Room was situated in the Winter Garden, a large conservatory situated between Quex House and the Museum buildings

Belgian Patients in the Mess Room, Quex Park. The Mess Room was situated in the Winter Garden, a large conservatory situated between Quex House and the Museum buildings

Belgian Patients & VAD Staff, B Ward, Quex Park.This ward was situated in the first gallery of the Museum, built in 1896, The Gallery housed a diorama (right hand side of photograph)

Belgian Patients & VAD Staff, A Ward, Quex Park
Belgian Patients and VAD Staff in A Ward at the Quex Park VAD Hospital. This ward was situated in the drawing room of Quex House. Fifteen beds were used in this room

Mansford House, Birchington as VAD Hospital
Mansford House, Spencer Road, Birchington. Mansford House was one of the buildings used by the Birchington VAD detachment in the early days of its work in 1914 and 1915

Belgian Patients & VAD Staff, Quex Park. The Quex Park VAD Hospital opened on 15 October 1914 and closed on 31 January 1919. The hospital was run by Kent/178, the Birchington Detachment

Quex House with car
View of the front of Quex House. Possibly taken just before the Hospital opened in mid October 1914. A small car is parked at the front

VAD Ambulance & Patients, Quex Park
Voluntary Aid Detachment Ambulance & Patients, Quex Park. Major Powell-Cotton converted two of his personal cars into ambulances and was the Area Transport Officer (VAD)

Group of staff & patients, Mansford House
Mansford House, Spencer Road, Birchington. Mansford House was one of the buildings used by the Birchington VAD detachment in the early days of its work in 1914 and 1915

Westgate-on-Sea Voluntary Aid Detachment, Kent / 64
Westgate-on-Sea Voluntary Aid Detachment, Kent/64 outside the front door of Quex Park, Birchington, Kent UK. This detachment worked at Quex Park VAD Hospital for a month after the first patients were

Quex Park VAD Hospital Belgian & British Patients
Quex Park VAD Hospital, Birchington, Kent, UK. Belgian & British Patients in front of the buildings. The VAD Hospital opened on 15 October 1914 and closed on 31 January 1919

Six men, including Belgian patients, Quex House. At least three are Belgian patients. One appears to be in Boy Scout uniform. Others may be Quex House staff, one may be a visiting entertainer

Quex Park VAD Hospital staff
Quex Park VAD Hospital, Birchington, Kent, UK. Staff, with Quex House domestic staff and Powell-Cotton children (Diana 1908-1986), Mary (1910-1998) and Antoinette (1913-1997)

Apple Bobbing, Quex House garden
Seven patients are gathered around at least one chair and some buckets. Five amused nurses are watching. The men are apple bobbing - trying to grab, using only their mouths

Nurses & patients, Winter Garden, Quex Park
Nurses and patients in the Winter Garden, Quex Park. This room was used as the Hospital Mess. Nurse Fanny Watson is standing, second left

Nurses & Doctor, Quex Park
Nurses of the Birchington VAD, together with Medical Officer, Dr Harry Worthington, outside Quex House in early 1915. Seated (left to right) are Alice Cobb, Quartermaster, Hannah Powell-Cotton

Seven VAD nurses at Quex Park
A group of seven VAD nurses standing at the front of the Winter Garden, Quex Park in February 1916. In the centre of the group is Nurse Fanny Watson; second from the right is `nurse Mildred Swinford

Quex House in the snow in February 1916. The Quex Park VAD Hospital opened on 15 October 1914 and closed on 31 January 1919. The hospital was run by Kent/178, the Birchington Detachment

Quex VAD patients in fancy dress outside the front door of Quex House. There was a collection of dressing up clothes at Quex House and they were used occasionally by the patients to put on plays

Nurses & Patients, Winter Garden, Quex
A group of VAD nurses and patients outside the Winter Garden, Quex Park, dated February 1916. Standing beside her mother, Hannah Powell Commandant

Patients boxing
Quex Park VAD Hospital patients. Entertainments and diversions were a regular part of the life of the hospital. The Quex Park VAD Hospital opened on 15 October 1914 and closed on 31 January 1919

The Village, Minster, Ramsgate, England
The Village, Minster, Ramsgate, near Birchington, Kent, England. Date: 1907

Alpha Road, Birchington, Kent
Alpha Road, Birchington, near Margate, Kent, England. Date: 1908

The Stocks, Monkton, Kent
The Stocks, Monkton, Ramsgate, near Birchington, Kent, England. Date: 1910s

School Play 1930S
Children put on a play of The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe at Seapoint School, Birchington, Kent, England

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