Landmarks lighting up blue and help celebrate the NHS’s 70th birthday

Landmark buildings in towns and cities across the UK are helping the NHS celebrate as it turns 70 today (July 5th 2018) by Lighting up blue.

To help mark the NHS’s 70th birthday, buildings, historic monuments and other high profile sites across the country will be lighting up blue on the evening of Thursday, 5 July. People are encouraged to take photos and share them via social media using the hashtags: #NHS70 and #LightUpBlue.

If you own/run a building or site and want to join in, please email [email protected].

Have a look at this map to find out where your nearest one is, or check the list below:

North

•  Andrew Marvell statues, Hull
• New: An Epic Tale of England, Bishop Auckland, County Durham
• Bacup Library
• Blackpool Tower
• New: Bradford (big screen)
• Bradford City Hall
• Bridgewater Place, Leeds
• Bury Art Museum
• Carnforth Library
• Centre Square fountain, Middlesbrough
• Chorley Council (clock tower)
• Civic Centre, Newcastle
• Clifford’s Tower, York
• Cunard Building, Liverpool
• County Hall, Durham
• Darlington Memorial Hospital
• New: Edgehill University, Ormskirk
• Everton Football Club
• Forster Square, Bradford
• Guildhall, Hull (statues)
• High Street, Stockton-on-Tees
• Hilltop Heights, Carlisle
•  Hull City Hall
• Hull Maritime Museum
•  Hull Minster
• Isla Gladstone Conservatory, Liverpool
• Keel Square, Sunderland
• New: Kendal Parish Church
• New: Kendal Castle
• Kirkham Library
• Knaresborough House
• Lancashire County Council
• York Walls, York
• Leeds Civic Hall
• Leeds First Direct Arena
• Leeds Town Hall
• Leeds University
• New: Leigh Hospital (Hanover Building)
• Liverpool Convention Centre
• Liverpool Town Hall
• Liverpool University (mechanical engineering building)
• Londridge Library, Preston
• Magistrates Building
• Manchester Town Hall
• Margaret McMillan Tower, Bradford
• Marine Hall, Fleetwood, Lancashire
• Media City UK, Salford
• Mersey Gateway Bridge, Runcorn
• Merrion Centre, Leeds
• Millennium Bridge, Gateshead
• Millennium Square, Leeds
• Mirror Pool, Bradford
• National Media Museum, Bradford
• Newport Bridge, Middlesbrough
• Orange Tower, Salford Quays
• Penshaw Monument, Sunderland
•  Queen Victoria Square, Hull (fountains and statue)
•  Port of Liverpool
• Radio City Tower, Liverpool
•  Ribbleton Library, Preston
• Ripon Town Hall
• Riverside, Stockton-on-Tees
• Royal Border Bridge, Berwick
•  Sefton Park Palm House, Liverpool
• Silverdale Library, Carnforth
• Skelmersdale Library
•  Solar Gate, Hull
• Sheffield Children’s Hospital
• St George’s Hall, Liverpool
•  St Luke’s Church, Liverpool
• St Helen’s Rugby Club
• St Mary’s Lighthouse, Whitley Bay
• Steve Prescott Bridge, St Helens
• Stockton Fountain, Stockton-on-Tees
• New: Stockport Town Hall
•  Sunderland Beacon of Light
• The Royal Hall, Harrogate
• Town Hall, South Shields
• University of Hull (Allam Medical Building)
• University of Liverpool (learning lab)
• Wainhouse Tower, Halifax
• Wakefield Clock Tower
•  Wallasey Town Hall, Wirral
•  Warrington Rugby Club
• xscape Yorkshire, Castleford
• World Museum, Liverpool
• York Hospital
• York Minster
• Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield
• York Walls

South

• Big Screen, Portsmouth
• Canterbury Cathedral
• Camborne Redruth Community Hospital, Cornwall
• Eden Project, Cornwall (biomes)
• Exeter Cathedral
• Emirates Spinnaker Tower, Portsmouth
• Kent County Cricket Club, Canterbury
• O2 Guildhall, Southampton
•  Marlow Theatre, Canterbury
• Rochester Castle, Kent
• Royal United Hospital, Bath
• Smeaton’s Tower, Plymouth
• Wills Memorial Building, University of Bristol

London

• British Library
• BT Tower
•  Department of Health and Social Care, SW1
• Houses of Parliament
• Lambeth Town Hall
• London Eye
• Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
•  The Royal College of Physicians, NW1

Midlands and East

• 12^th Street, Milton Keynes
• Broadgate, Coventry
• Cambridge Corn Exchange
•  Chatsworth House, Bakewell
• Colchester Hospital
• Colchester United FC
•  Colchester Castle
• De Montford Hall, Leicester
• Grantham Guildhall
• Hanley Town Hall
• Hedingham Castle, Essex
• Ipswich Hospital (including Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Centre)
• New: Ipswich Town Hall
•  Lady Godiva, Coventry
•  Leicester Cathedral
• Leicester City Hall
• Leicester Town Hall
• Library of Birmingham
•  Lincoln Castle
•  Milton Keynes Library
• Nottingham Council House
• Norwich Castle
• Norwich City Town Hall
• Pershore Abbey, Worcester
• New: Peterborough Greyhound Stadium (4 and 6 July)
•  Southwater One, Telford
• University of Birmingham (Old Joe)
• New: University of Leicester (George Davies Centre)
• New: Watford Town Hall
• New: Walsall Football Club
• Welwyn Garden City fountain
• Worcester University

A spokesperson for NHS England North said:

“We have some great iconic buildings taking part and would love more buildings across the North to get involved and to light up blue on the evening of  5th July.  We are calling on churches, mosques, castles, historic homes and any large buildings in towns, cities and villages to get involved and light up blue if they have the facilities to do so.”

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