We hope that the website grows over time, and we would love to hear your comments, but we would especially love to hear from people who want to share their memories of the hospital, and welcome contact from former staff and patients.

We are always keen to receive new photographs of the hospital, or copies of documents from the hospital. Please get in touch with us by email if you have anything you can let us use on this website. We can always scan any documents or photographs that you have, returning the originals to you.

Family Records

We have been contacted by quite a few people who are trying to find out details of relatives who may have spent time at Bexley Hospital. This website cannot help with those enquiries, but you might find the details below of use if you are searching for details:

London Metropolitan Archives - Autum 2006

The records of Bexley Hospital were recently deposited in London Metropolitan Archive and have not yet been catalogued. They include:

Medical Superintendent's reports 1907-1916
Staff registers 1897-1914
Patients' admission and discharge registers 1898 -1980
Patients' case books 1899 -1950s
Death registers 1907 - 1982
Burial registers 1900 - 1917

As the records are at present uncatalogued, they can be made available for consultation by prior appointment only, made at least a week in advance.

In addition, hospital records are subject to a period of restricted access in order to protect the confidentiality of living individuals. It is therefore not possible for members of the public to consult records in person which contain information about patients who may still be alive.

London Metropolitan Archives are able to undertake research on behalf of an individual to provide information from hospital records, but do have to ensure that the information is only being released to either the individual concerned or, in the case of a third party request, that the patient concerned is deceased. London Metropolitan Archives charge for undertaking such searches within the records as part of their Family History Research Service. The minimum charge for this service is £35.00 for an hour's work. Further information and application forms are available on their website at www.lma.gov.uk.

London Metropolitan Archives also hold here the records of the London County Council which was responsible for running Bexley Hospital until the National Health Service was established in 1948. These records have been catalogued and are readily available in the Reading Room, but they have not been digitised.