Scanned from a tiny print, I reckoned I had only a slim chance of identifying this building. However, when I looked at this enlarged version the roof of the building behind was immediately familiar. It is County Hall. The hospital was bombed on 9th September 1940. This wing was demolished and replaced with a modern high rise building after the war. Getty images have this photo, which shows a patient and nurses posing in front of the same section of building before workmen had started to clear the rubble, and this 1940 Pathe News reel also surveys the damage.
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