Description:An ambulance on standby outside Queen's Hospital, Belvedere Road, Outwoods, Burton-upon-Trent. The first phase of a new hospital at Outwoods was opened in 1972, part of the process of replacing the Infirmary and General Hospital which stood on Duke Street. A new maternity unit was opened in 1983 and phase II completed in 1993. The hospital was renamed Queen's Hospital by Queen Elizabeth II when she visited in 1995.
This Image is from a collection of photographs of Burton upon Trent commissioned and assembled by Burton upon Trent Civic Society as a record of the town in the year 2000.
Text and photograph © Burton upon Trent Civic Society