The hospital that never was.

Bluecoat Hospital, Chester

The Blue Coat Hospital never really was a hospital, merely a boy's school. Founded in 1700, Blue Coat was a school for young boys whose parents did not have enough money to send them to regular boarding school. The boys were fed and learned their four 'R's': "reading, riting, rithmetic and religion." The boarding school closed in 1949 only later to be acquired by the University of Chester as a history department.