Summer Lane 's 1809 book
An history of Birmingham, showing the original building on Centro House name plate on Hospital Street In 1765, a committee for a proposed hospital, formed by
John Ash and supported by
Sir Lister Holte, 5th Baronet, the
Earl of Bradford,
Samuel Garbett, Sir
Henry Gough,
Charles Adderley,
Matthew Boulton,
John Baskerville,
Sampson Lloyd and others, purchased: from a Mrs Dolphin, for £120 per acre. (Walmore Lane is now Lancaster Street.) and which continued to fund the hospital into the 20th century. giving its name to Hospital Street.
Steelhouse Lane 25 inch map of 1892-1914 The hospital relocated to Steelhouse Lane in 1897, The architect of the new, brick building was
William Henman.
Neville Chamberlain became the
official visitor and then a director of the hospital. He advocated a larger facility, a cause in which he was eventually successful, though building did not commence until 1934. He was still fundraising while he was
Prime Minister. The hospital became part of the new
National Health Service in 1948. Until 1964 the hospital was a training centre for nurses, who, on qualification, became members of the General Hospital Birmingham Nurses League. After Birmingham General Hospital closed in the mid-1990s, the main red brick building was adapted for use as
Birmingham Children's Hospital which opened there in 1998. == Notable staff ==