Borrowed Stockings

It Says 'XMAS EVE "GOOD-NIGHT" BORROWED STOCKINGS.'

From The Star Series - G. D. & D,. London. Printed in Bavaria.

Opening Ceremony, Purley Cottage Hospital, 1909

The guard of honour, policeman, and crowds can be seen on this hundred year old postcard (Copyright W. Burdekin) eagerly awaiting the arrival of Princess Christian to open the Purley Cottage Hospital. Before 1880 Purley hardly existed but it quickly grew from that time with a railway station nearby, and so The Cottage Hospital was needed.