Step back three decades to see what Chippenham's hospitals used to look like.

A delve into our archives has uncovered images dating back to the 1980s, including a visit by Clive Mantle, who played Dr Mike Barratt in the long running TV series Casualty.

They also show Frogwell Hospital, built as an isolation hospital for patients suffering infectious diseases in 1904. The site is now a housing estate, but many people in the area have recollections of being treated for diseases like scarlet fever or being sent there for physiotherapy.

The buildings of St Andrews in Rowden Hill, which later became part of Chippenham Community Hospital, started life as a workhouse complex for the poor. It became St Andrews with the birth of the NHS in 1948.