Royal Isle of Wight Infirmary and County Hospital: exterior with Queen Victoria and attendants visiting, 1899. Photograph.

The Queen is visible on the back seat, facing towards the camera and sheltered by a parasol

Photograph taken on Friday 19 July 1899, shortly after 6.00 p.m., when Queen Victoria opened the Queen Victoria Ward for Children. According to Laidlaw, op. cit. p. 27, a short service was conducted by the Bishop, and the Queen, remaining in her coach, was then handed a silver disk which she pressed, thereby opening the doors of the ward

1899

1 photograph : photoprint, albumen ; sheet 22.5 x 27.9 cm

E.F. Laidlaw, A history of the Isle of Wight hospitals, Newport, Isle of Wight, 1994, pp. 26-27 (p. 26 another photograph, apparently taken a little earlier from an upstairs room)

Wellcome Collection 41259i