Guy's and St Thomas' in photos

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Below are a selection of photos between 1940 and 1960 of Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital. They include nurses singing around a piano at Guy's Hospital and patients on the terrace by the River Thames at St Thomas' Hospital.

Appointments desk at Guy's Hospital (1950s)

A charge nurse hands an envelope to the head porter, Mr Streeton (1960)

Children in Caleb Diplock Ward at Guy's Hospital (1950s)

Cobalt Unit for treatment of cancer (1960)

Father Christmas on a ward

Florence Nightingale Ward

Maternity Ward

A nurse and passer by outside St Thomas' on Flag Day (1940s)

Nurses in the garden at St Thomas' (circa 1940s)

Patients on the terrace at St Thomas', 1960 (Nursing Times)

Nurses singing round a piano, Guy's Hospital (1960s)

Patients on the balcony at Guy's Hospital (1950s)

Physiotherapy at St Thomas' Hospital (1960)

Radiodiagnosis department, St Thomas' Hospital (1960)

Sister Alexandra serving breakfast at St Thomas' Hospital (1948)

St Thomas' Hospital from across the Thames,1960 (Nursing Times)