NHS Baby Clinic, Beamish Open Air Museum

The NHS Baby Clinic at the 1950s Leasingthorne Colliery Welfare Hall and Community Centre, at Beamish Open Air Museum. The building is a replica of the Leasingthorne Colliery Welfare Hall and Community Centre, built near Bishop Auckland in 1957. Clinics were attended by expectant mothers to receive antenatal care, then, once baby was born, mothers would bring them to the clinic to make sure they were growing well, and to receive advice and welfare foods such as national dried milk, orange juice and cod liver oil.