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29th April 2026

Any effort today to make children's hospital wards cheerful and bright cannot match the large-scale picture tiles depicting fairy tales and nursery rhymes which were common from the 1870s to the 1930s. The Princess Elizabeth children's ward in Ealing's King Edward Memorial Hospital, for example, had an extensive scheme made in the 1930s by Carter & Co. of Poole. The hospital was demolished in the 1980s and the tiles were saved; most were installed in the new hospital while some are in the Jackfield Tile Museum.  

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