Basement windoew then serving as a geriatric

then serving as a geriatric hospital for its final 41 years

Carved timber counters line the floor below them

partly broken

its housing thickened with rust and caked flour dust

Tools and machinery lie abandoned inside the former blacksmith and electrical workshops at Portland Cement Works

Basement windoew then serving as a geriatricConcrete floor and peeling paint catch the light in the basement of the former Lewisham Hospital, Convent and Grounds, photographed in 2019. The complex above was built across seven construction phases between 1889 and 1927, operated by the Little Company of Mary for nearly a century, and transferred to the Society of St Vincent de Paul in 1987. Part of the Lewisham Hospital series.