The Gooseberry Bush black plaque

This black commemorative plaque records: The Gooseberry Bush These Licensed Premises were built in 1984, on part of the site occupied by Nottingham Women's Hospital. The hospital had replaced a Victorian mansion, called Southfield House. The first patients arrived in January 1930. The last baby born here was in January 1981. The hospital closed, with the site then partly cleared for The Gooseberry Bush, named after the place where babies were said to arrive. Recorded plaque organisation: J. D. Wetherspoon.

The Gooseberry Bush is a licensed premises built on the former site of Nottingham Women's Hospital, which operated from 1930 to 1981 and was locally believed to be connected with a mythical place called the gooseberry bush where babies were said to come from.