Kings College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London

As seen from the roof of Maudsley Hospital opposite.
I spent the morning on the roof doing surveys. 
Before visiting I knew nothing of the history of the Hospital, but it is so huge I decided to look up it's history as it is no 'ordinary' hospital.

The Maudsley story dates from 1907, when once leading Victorian psychiatrist Henry Maudsley offered London County Council £30,000 (apparently earned from lucrative private practice in the West End) to help found a new mental hospital that would:
be exclusively for early and acute cases rather than chronic cases,
have an out-patients' clinic,
provide for teaching and research.



During World War 1 the building was used to treat war veterans. It was then returned to the control of London County Council and finally opened as the Maudsley Hospital in February 1923. It remains notable that a specific Act of Parliament had to be obtained (1915) to allow the institution to accept voluntary patients without needing to certify them as insane.



At the outbreak of the Second World War, and with the threat of air-raids, the Maudsley closed and staff dispersed to two locations: a temporary hospital at Mill Hill School in north London and Belmont Hospital in Sutton, Surrey. 
Staff returned to the Maudsley site in 1945 and three years later the Maudsley joined up with the Bethlem Royal Hospital to become partners in the newly established National Health Service (NHS).