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Ewell Road
A resident has started a campaign to have the new hospital in Surbiton named after a 19th century pioneer who founded the town.
Bob Phillips, of Broomfield Road, wants the new hospital on Ewell Road, also home to a primary school, named after businessman Thomas Pooley, a man who built what would become modern Surbiton.
Mr Pooley, originally from Cornwall, moved to London in about 1830 to seek his fortune, eventually settling in Kingston, where he operated several malt houses.
He would go on to build a hub around a newly-built train station, later to become known as Surbiton, but was forgotten after litigation forced him into bankruptcy.
The “ill-educated” outsider’s success earned him covetous glances from Kingston business leaders, whose Machiavellian plotting would eventually lead him to sign over the rights of the town.
A spokeswoman for Kingston PCT said they were currently considering names for the hospital.
Name suggestions can be emailed to communications@kpct.nhs.uk.
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