OPERATING THEATRE, 1901
Charing Cross Hospital is one of London's foremost teaching hospitals, training students and treating patients for more than 200 years. This remarkable photograph, taken at the turn of the 20th century, shows a medical procedure being conducted inside one of the institution's operating theatres, observed by men seated in an encircling gallery. Despite moving five miles west to Hammersmith in 1973, the hospital – originally based in buildings close to Charing Cross Station – still retains its original