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Greenwich Market

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Greenwich Market
Greenwich Market
Greenwich Market
Greenwich Market
Greenwich Market
Greenwich Market
Greenwich Market
Greenwich Market
Greenwich Market
Greenwich Market
Greenwich Market
Greenwich Market
Greenwich Market
Greenwich Market
Greenwich Market
Greenwich Market
Greenwich Market
Greenwich Market
Greenwich Market
Greenwich Market
Greenwich Market
Greenwich Market
Greenwich Market
Greenwich Market
Greenwich Market
Phone:
+44 20 8269 5096

Hours:
Sunday10am - 5:30pm
Monday10am - 5:30pm
Tuesday10am - 5:30pm
Wednesday10am - 5:30pm
Thursday10am - 5:30pm
Friday10am - 5:30pm
Saturday10am - 5:30pm


Greenwich Hospital was a permanent home for retired sailors of the Royal Navy, which operated from 1692 to 1869. Its buildings were later used by the Royal Naval College, Greenwich and the University of Greenwich, and are now known as the Old Royal Naval College. The word hospital was used in its original sense of a place providing hospitality for those in need of it, and did not refer to medical care, although the buildings included an infirmary which, after Greenwich Hospital closed, operated as Dreadnought Seaman's Hospital until 1986. The foundation which operated the hospital still exists, for the benefit of former Royal Navy personnel and their dependants. It now provides sheltered housing on other sites.
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