Newcastle Eye Infirmary
Photograph showing the Newcastle Eye Infirmary, St Mary's Place, Newcastle upon Tyne in 1957.
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, specialist hospitals such as the Newcastle Eye Infirmary and the Lock Hospital were opened. The Eye Infirmary was built in 1822 by two surgeons. Unlike the Forth Banks Infirmary, patients were given free treatment, and did not have to provide a letter of recommendation in order to gain admittance to the hospital (the 'letter system'). The Eye Infirmary was so popular that it moved to new premises in Prudhoe Street after only two years. It moved to St Mary's Place in 1885 and remained there until it closed in 1957.
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