A small Bechstein, captured in the chapel of Guy's Hospital. On which the ticket reads: 'This piano was given to York Clinic by a grateful patient of Dr Stafford-Clerk as a token of appreciation of his generous treatment and unusual foresight in directing the treatment of a hopeless leg injury'. One wonders what the story was here, given that reference 2 tells us that Dr Stafford-Clerk was a psychiatrist, sometime director of the York Clinic.
[The York Clinic, the six-storey building to the right, situated within Guy’s Hospital. Photographed in September 1955, it had become part of the NHS although it still had a number of private beds. Opened in April 1944, the treatment and management practised at the York Clinic owed much to therapeutic communities set up to treat servicemen suffering from the accumulated stress and trauma of combat. It was said to have been the first dedicated psychiatric unit within a UK teaching hospital].
This entrance may still be the goods entrance today, off Weston Street. Less the walls and the wrought iron gates.
I don't think the six storey building still exists, but the clinic may live on in a newer block on roughly the same site.
A chapel which also included a small organ and what looked like a kettle drum.
I will be returning to it in due course.
References
Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2023/09/piano-76.html.
Reference 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Stafford-Clark.
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