The Albert Memorial Hospital, Wollongong, New South Wales.

Scarce c.19th engraving of the Albert Memorial Hospital, Wollongong in 1866 built as a memorial the death of the Price Consort.

Dr George Prowd Lambert moved: “That it is the opinion of this meeting the best way of perpetuating the memory of the late Prince Consort would be the establishment of a hospital in Wollongong and naming it ‘The Albert Memorial Hospital.’”

A committee was formed and almost immediately, the search for a site commenced. Charles Throsby Smith offered to donate half an acre of land on Fairy Meadow Road (Princes Highway) which was accepted. Negotiations for the land went nowhere with C. T. Smith. The financial records of the hospital showed that the purchase of land was £165. The committee approved the plans of Wollongong architect Mr J. Backhouse on November 14, 1862.

From the original edition of the Illustrated London News.

References:
De Vries, L. History as Hot News: World of the Early Victorians Through the Eyes of the “Illustrated London News”.. London 1996.

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