Friends of Prince Henry Hospital records

MLMSS 10794
R 2393

fonds

approximately 1988-2000

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Photographs, Ephemera

9594590

1.17 metres of textual material (5 boxes) includes photographs
5 object (1 box) - cloth banners

Prince Henry Hospital, Sydney, is a heritage-listed former teaching hospital and infectious diseases hospital and now UNSW teaching hospital and spinal rehabilitation unit located at 1430 Anzac Parade, Little Bay, City of Randwick, New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by NSW Colonial Architect and NSW Government Architect and constructed between 1881 and 1934. The Prince Henry site contains a variety of buildings in an open landscape setting, as well as archaeological features and artefacts that provide evidence of its continuous use as a hospital for over 120 years. It is also known as The Coast Hospital. The property is owned by Landcom, an agency of the Government of New South Wales. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 May 2003. In the late 1980s, the Greiner government began to make the 100-year-old hospital redundant and turn its precious coastal location over to developers. Friends of Prince Henry, a coalition of nurses, doctors, environmentalists and community groups dedicated to preserving the site for aged care, rehabilitation for accident victims and as a nurses' training facility was formed. Although the hospital functions were later shut down or transferred, the Friends managed to save many of original hospital buildings, through heritage-listing.

Largely representing the activism of Gillian Collinson to save the Prince Henry Hospital from closure.

MLMSS 10794
BOX 1 1988-1994
Accounts, draft minutes and final minutes, attendance book, album of photographs and negatives 1992-1993 (events listed on cover and people depicted identified on reverse of photographs)

BOX 2 1988-1994
Correspondence

BOX 3 1995-2000
Correspondence, files relating to community activism, Randwick City Council, and operations of Prince Henry Hospital

BOX 4 1987-1997
Correspondence and reference files, including the buildings of Prince Henry Hospital and the financial holdings of the Hospital

BOX 5 1988-1997
Press clipping scrap books and 6 VHS videocassettes including “Your Health is at Stake” 1993 and recordings of media coverage

R 2393
BOX 1
Five protest banners:
"Save Prince Henry Hospital, don't let the coast become a ghost"
"Friends of Prince Henry Hospital, don't let the coast become a ghost"
"Don't downgrade Prince Henry Hospital"
"To Prof Dwyers privatisation plan. No"
"Prof Dwyer how much are you being paid. No"

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