Our history
Acton Care Centre opened in 2003, but its roots go back to the 19th century:
- 1897 – John Passmore Edwards, Victorian all-rounder and great philanthropist, gives £2,500 to build Acton Cottage Hospital. Constructed on land given by Lord Rothschild on Gunnersbury Park Lane, it is opened in 1898 to mark Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee
- 1902 – Hospital rules state the ‘Hospital shall be open to the poor resident, or employed by residents in Acton, free of charge; but if there be a vacant bed, needy residents may be admitted for operations or accidents as paying patients, at a minimum fee of just over two pounds per week. Not more than one paying patient shall at any time be in the Hospital’
- 1915 – The name was changed to Acton Hospital
- 1923 – Neville Chamberlain opens two newly added wings. The Acton War Memorial is part of the completed enlargement
- 1948 – The hospital converts into an NHS service
- 1975 – A report recommends Acton Hospital close as a ‘general hospital’ after 77 years of nursing the sick. From 1980 it becomes a place for older patients requiring long-term care
- 2003 – Acton Care Centre opens on the site of Acton Hospital on 31 March. It still has the
J. Passmore Edwards building, and retains the location of the local war memorial - 2011 – Passmore Edwards memorial garden created
