With the end of hostilities in Europe with VE Day, the 231st United States Army Air Force Hospital at Morley closed on June 8th 1945. (Pictures are shown here.)
The 231st had moved there in March 1944, succeeding the 77th USAAF Hospital, which had been set up the year before on a site previously home to the Mid-Norfolk Golf Club.
As shown in one picture, ward tents were erected to cope with the mass admissions expected after D-Day and, indeed, in 1944, eight hospital train-loads of casualties, totalling 2099 patients, arrived at Wymondham railway station. Another 1155 were admitted in 1945 before the hospital’s closure.
After the hospital closed, the buildings were used for a short time as a transit camp for the Royal Norfolk Regiment and then as two teachers' training colleges, before becoming a school, now Wymondham College.
