7 Month Midwife Appt

Hampton House, Cotham - across the road from my flat - such a beautiful building

This morning I went to Hampton House for Glucose tests for my blood sugar levels.

Homeopathic medicine has been available in Bristol since 1852, when Dr Black first started dispensing from premises in the Triangle.

During the next 69 years the service developed and expanded culminating in the commissioning of a new hospital in the grounds of Cotham House in 1921. 

The site of the Bristol Homeopathic Hospital was purchased by W. Melville Wills, of Bracken Hill House, Leigh Woods, for £10,000 in 1917. The new hospital building was designed by Oatley and Lawrence of Bristol. It was designed in the style of the garden at Bracken Hill House, overlying the early 19th century garden of Cotham House. The garden centres around a small formally laid out rose garden immediately to the south of the main hospital building.

The foundation stone was laid in June 1921 by H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, and the building was officially opened on May 20th, 1925. The garden was laid out in 1926-27, in memory of Harold Edgar Melville Wills.

To see baby's development weeks 28 - 37:
http://www.babycentre.co.uk/v1027487/inside-pregnancy-weeks-28-37