Quote Originally Posted by fred View Post
"The Queen was accompanied by the minister for health - one Enoch Powell, five years before winning notoriety with his Rivers of Blood speech".
According to Dennis, it was the very first hospital to be built by the NHS after its foundation in 1947.
.......................................................................................................... ... without my wishing to "split hairs", the NHS was actually founded in July 1948, by the first postwar Labour Government's Health Minister, Aneurin Bevan.

........................................................................ explains my previous mention of the forthcoming 70th anniversary.