Singleton Hospital is built over the remains of the World War 2 US army camp that was situated on that part of what was originally still Singleton Park. Between the closure of the camp and the hospital being built the Royal Welsh Show of 1949 was staged on the grounds: a show which attracted some 100,000+ people.
The first stage of the hospital, which included outpatients’ facilities, was completed in 1957.
Work recommenced in 1963 and the second stage, which allowed the closure of the aging Swansea Hospital in St. Helen’s Road, was completed in 1968.
The hospital adjoins the Singleton Park Campus of Swansea University where there is a nursing school and a school of medicine. The Maggie’s Cancer Care Centre for South West Wales, which was designed by the Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa, is located in the grounds of Singleton Hospital.
