QE Hospital - There, Gone and Today

I posted, in 2010, a series of photos taken weekly on the demolition of the old QE Hospital in KK. This was what it looked like on 1 August 2010. (THERE IT WAS).

The demolition was essentially completed by Week 16. This was the photo taken on 14 November 2010 of the end result. (THEN IT WAS GONE).

Here's a photo taken this morning of the almost completed New QE Hospital building. (HERE TODAY).

The new building looked modern and had a strange structure on the top of the right hand end (in this angle of the photo).

It looked almost like a little hut on top?

QE Hospital KK Demolition - Week 02

I took a photo this morning. The comparative photos showed some progress at the top of the building.

The name had been removed. So now the building is nameless.

The Hospital QE logo at the top had also been removed.

The scaffolding was a little higher.

Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Kota Kinabalu

As the Queen Elizabeth Hospital is near to the Sabah Museum, I took a photo of it, on my way to the museum, as it may soon be demolished. The state government website gave the history of this hospital (the main hospital in Kota Kinabalu for many years).

As usual, the info is not up-to-date. The building structure had been found to be unsafe, so it is no longer in use.

It was named the Queen Elizabeth Hospital as Queen Elizabeth II visited Kota Kinabalu in 1971 according to that website. The wikipedia page on the official commenwealth visits by Queen Elizabeth II said that the visit was in 1972.

I do not remember the year, but I do remember going to the Tanjung Aru Beach to take photographs of the event, as part of my school's photographic club. One of the parks at the Tanjung Aru Beach was named Prince Philip Park, in honour of her husband.

I believe they came by their Royal Yacht Britannia. So perhaps their visit to Kota Kinabalu was unofficial in 1971 (stopover), while the official visit in KL was in 1972 after visiting Singapore.