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MY late maternal grandmother often used to call St Peter’s Hospital ‘The Spike’. As a youngster it intrigued me, but it wasn’t until later in life that I realised why. I discovered that strange colloquial term of hers was actually a nod to the building’s past. Prior to it becoming the caring NHS establishment that we know today, it was a workhouse. Opened in 1873, it was a place dreaded by my grandmother and her contemporaries – somewhere they didn’t want to end up, hence (it turned out I wrongly supposed) the nickname – representing something sharp and somehow coldly menacing.

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