In 1866,
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, with financial backing from her father, founded and became General Medical Attendant to '''St Mary's Dispensary
in Seymour Place, where she worked for over 20 years. This dispensary developed into the New Hospital for Women''' in 1872. It was established to enable poor women to obtain medical help from qualified female practitioners - in that era a very unusual thing. In 1874 it moved to
Marylebone Road, on a site now occupied by
The Landmark Hotel. who took into his employment at this time Anderson's sister
Agnes Garrett and her cousin
Rhoda Garrett, who contributed to its design. The hospital was renamed the
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital in 1918, in the year following the death of the pioneer physician. In 1946 the hospital purchased the Hampstead Nursing Home at 40 Belsize Grove (close to
Belsize Park Underground station). Between 1948 and 1977 the property in Belsize Grove was known as the Garrett Anderson
Maternity Home. The building was subsequently demolished and replaced by residential accommodation. The Elizabeth Garrett Anderson hospital in Euston Road was under threat of closure from the 1960s and closure was announced in 1976 by Camden
Area Health Authority. In November that year the building was occupied by the staff. Campaigning continued until 1979. In January 2001 the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital amalgamated with the Obstetric Hospital to form the
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Obstetric Hospital: it moved to Huntley Street at the same time. In November 2008, the hospital's
maternity and
neonatal services moved to the new
University College Hospital Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing, a £70 million purpose-built wing offering the latest technology and facilities, ==Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Gallery==