Kingston General was based on Beverly road and has been renamed twice.

Originally called Southcoats institution in 1844-1929, then from 1929 to 1948 the hospital was simply called “Beverley Road Institution”. The work house was built in 1844 at a cost of £11,000.

Workhouse conditions were bad as they were in any workhouse of its time and Hull had two, funnily enough, one on the current site of Hull Royal infirmary and one here on the site of Kingston General Hospital.

Kingston general closed its doors to in patients in 2000 but remained opened to out patients up until 2002.

Before closing, Kingston General was used for Medicine for the Elderly and Plastic Surgery and had 120 beds. Its out patients were mainly haematology.

Many older people refused to go to hospital because of the association with work houses in the late 1800’s to mid 1900’s. The government abolished work houses in 1930 but the memories run deep in some.

Kingston general is now long gone and just a faded memory. The old hospital was demolished to make way for a state of the art secondary school, which now currently sits on the old hospital site.