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Site of former Dispensary

ACS news: August 2015

Notice Board..............................1
Roddam Rigg............................ 1
Large houses............................. 2
Sustainable Transport.............. 2
Chapel Lane.............................. 3
Barnyards Walk.........................4
Ravenslaw listing decision...... 4
News in brief.............................5
Picture quiz............................... 5
County Council Property........6
Conservation and heritage
budgets.......................................6
Planning matters...................... 7
20mph limit............................... 7
About Alnwick Civic Society..8
Who's Who?.............................. 8
Diary dates................................ 8
Quiz answers.............................8
Old debts................................... 8

ACS news: May 2021

Annual General Meeting.......................................2
The Dispensary.......................................................3
25 years ago: a controversial development..........3
Planning matters....................................................4
Civic Voice: response to consultations.................5
Litter: the bar has been raised...............................8
News in brief...........................................................9
Buildings of note..................................................10
Quiz: Unity of colour and scale? Really?...........11
About Alnwick Civic Society..............................12
Who's Who?..........................................................12
Diary dates............................................................12

Dispensary - before demolition

View of Wingrove House before demolition.

Hospital Article

OS name books - Infirmary

An excellent stone building established in 1815 and is under the management of two physicians two Surgeons and an apothecary whose offices occupy the ground floor. Upwards of 400 patients receive medical and surgical assistance at this institution annually. Every subscriber of one guinea or upwards is considered a governor with the privilege of voting in all transactions and may have one patient constantly on the Books. The institution was originally a Dispensary. Now an Infirmary the upper story contains the wards and chambers for the Nurses