Looking Back: The new City Hospital  in 2010

My October 2010 picture shows the newly built Peterborough City Hospital, and the Edith Cavell Hospital (demolished in 2011), writes street photographer Chris Porsz.

My son Adam, who is now 46, and his brother Simon, 48, were fascinated by the bulldozers clearing the site and laying the foundations when I photographed them as children (second photo).

The newly built PCH and soon-to-be demolished ECH in 2010placeholder image
The newly built PCH and soon-to-be demolished ECH in 2010

The biggest bugbear four decades later is the parking gridlock – why was it designed with only one entrance and exit?

See more images in my NHS book ‘Just Be Kind, available from my website.

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