Building    From /10/1922 

First refraction hospital in the world

Categories: Medicine

Formed as the London Refraction Hospital (or the Institute of Ophthalmic Opticians), became the Institute of Optometry in 1988.

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First refraction hospital in the world

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Institute of Optometry

In the correspondence pages of the 1927 BMJ the man named on the plaque, Fran...

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Redesign and re-opening of Memorial Park at Guy's Hospital

Redesign and re-opening of Memorial Park at Guy's Hospital

Re-designed in 1992. The arch was moved in 1994.

Event, History, Medicine

2 memorials
George Carpenter

George Carpenter

Major George Blackburn Carpenter was born on 14 May 1917 in Townville, Crawford County, Pennsylvania, USA, the third child of George Blackburn Carpenter (1878-1957) and Anna Amelia Blackburn née Co...

Person, Armed Forces, Medicine, USA

War served, WW2
1 memorial
Francis T. Gregg

Francis T. Gregg

M.A. Secretary of Institute of The Ophthalmic Opticians, Refraction Hospital in 1929.

Person, Medicine

1 memorial
Worshipful Society of Apothecaries

Worshipful Society of Apothecaries

A London livery company. Originally part of the Grocers’ Company, they separated when they were granted their own royal charter in 1617. The Apothecaries Act of 1815 granted them the power to lice...

Group, Medicine

1 memorial
John MacLean Carvell, MBE, MRCS, LSA

John MacLean Carvell, MBE, MRCS, LSA

Assistant Commissioner in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 District Metropolitan Corps, 1897-1923. Honorary Associate in the Order of St John. John MacLean Carvell was born on 20 August 1856, ...

Person, Community / Clubs, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration

1 memorial