Create Myself Anew

‘Tis true my form is something odd,

Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, Tower Hamlets, E1

But blaming me is blaming God;

Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, Tower Hamlets, E1

Could I create myself anew

Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, Tower Hamlets, E1

I would not fail in pleasing you.

Bomb damage in the Post Mortem room (1944), Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, Tower Hamlets, E1

If I could reach from pole to pole

Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, Tower Hamlets, E1

Or grasp the ocean with a span,

Works Department staff (1860s), Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, Tower Hamlets, E1

I would be measured by the soul;

Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, Tower Hamlets, E1

The mind’s the standard of the man.

Evacuating children (1940), Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, Tower Hamlets, E1

Joseph Merrick’s version of Isaac Watts’ False Greatness (1706)

Waldron Health Centre

Thank Heaven! the crisis—
The danger is past…

Landscape Projects' Waldron Health Centre, Stanley Street, New Cross, Lewisham, SE8

And the lingering illness
Is over at last…

Landscape Projects' Waldron Health Centre, Stanley Street, New Cross, Lewisham, SE8

From Edgar Allan Poe’s For Annie (1849)

Kentish Town Health Centre

Everything felt better here.

Kentish Town Health Centre, Bartholomew Road, Camden, NW5

The walls were white and bare. They reflected the electric light starkly and gave away no clue as to who lived in there.

Kentish Town Health Centre, Bartholomew Road, Camden, NW5

Now that she was alone, she could begin to think.