The eye and ear infirmary as it is today as apartments
The eye and ear infirmary as it is today as apartments
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Does anyone know if any photos or info are about concerning the Childrens hospital that once stood in Heswall? I was there as a child.
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spent many hours in the Childrens Infirmary Myrtle Street as a kid...Miss accident prone. would love to see some old pics of the inside, not sure if the LRO have pics of that.
my gtgrandfather died at the David Lewis Northern after falling through the glass roof at Waterloo goods yards
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Hello Kev - that picture of the Kirkdale Homes is the one I've been hoping
to see! As it dates to 1929 it is as I remember it because a) I lived opposite
in the road going off it to the left, Rumney Road and b) I worked there in
1936/7 my first job in the Corpy.Although they called it a Nursing Home it
really was a Workhouse and it was a rather gruelling experience at times
for a young lad of 17. I have been shocked to find it no longer exists as well as a lot of property around it, including Hogarth Road, where I was born. When I last visited a few years ago I was just in time to see them knocking
down Rumney Road! It gave me a bit of a turn to see the upper part of our house completely exposed to the elements!! I would not recognise any of it
now unless I walked further down till I got to the Rec.
Thanks again for the photo Stan H
Good pics Kev. So sad to see all those kids names on the headstones. So young,so sad.
I did my paediatric nursing rotation there back in '77...I will have a look and see if I have any photo's of the place..it was a grand hospital..we used to wheel the beds out so the little ones could get some air ..most of them were bed bound due to being in plaster castes as a result of having scoliosis.....
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Lovely picture of the Northern....if I look closely I can even see my room in the nurses home....
Very sad those gravestone names.. So young to have a life in a hossie or orphanage.. and not even become a teen before you die.. Very sad indeed..
Ta for sharing.. Makes one look at how much we have, and appreciate it more..
I do so thank, whoever kept their names alive on a stone of remembrance. One can only hope , they knew they were loved.. and they would never be forgotten in history...
And to all the nurses, and doctors.. bless you for your unselfish work..
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There is a dvd with this on showing the boys and girls in their hospital beds on a balcony in the open air, banging toy drums etc and showing malnutritious kids entering hospital and then them looking fine after care. It's part of a dvd on Liverpool in general and I think it shows the lumiere bros 1800s film at the beginning (on the overhead and at Lime st) and shows the 1907 - 700 year birthday of liverpool celebrations/floats etc.
Hi Maggie! I would be interested to know if you worked there at the same time as Matron Olive Howell? who was previously matron of the Liverpool Radium Institute when I was there prior to 1963. I remember visiting Matron Howell at Heswall just before I left for NZ Sept 63. Cheers
Hi 18stanley,
thought you might like to see a couple more pic's of the Kirkdale homes,as you used to work there! I lived in Rumney rd myself,(no'28)and used the homes as a fantastic playground,chased out by a mr.Connolly,occasionally
(photo's courtesy of L.R.O.)
Hello wsteve55 - many thanks for the photos. I walked up and down
that long drive up to the main entrance many times. B&W doesn't do it justice;
the borders were full of flowers all the summer and the rest of the grounds
were always green and well kept.Before going further with my side of the story
could you tell me when you lived in Rumney Road. My family arrived there in
1934/5 and eventually movedi after the War to Huyton.We were at number 40,
not all that far away. We were near the end of the Road and I had the horrible
experience of going to look at it one day only to see it being knocked down by
a huge bulldozer! Did they demolish the whole of the Road or only our part of it? The modern map of the area shows wholesale changes - Leven Street seems
to have disappeared from our end and Medlock Street from the other!!
I'll leave it there for the moment but would be very pleased to hear
a bit more of your side of the saga.Thanks again for coming back with those
photos. All best wishes Stan H
Hi 18stanley,
glad you liked the pic's! I only lived in Rumney rd for a relatively short time from '60 to '65,and was only a kid at the time,but I do remember some names such as the Cleary's, Corness's,Lloyds, Cavadino's, and maybe you remember "Muriel's" corner shop.and also "lily's" just opposite,in Leven st? Rumney rd. as was,is now gone,though the "Medlock" pub is still there, the Kirkdale homes was demolished, and replaced with a smaller home,"Cavendish" house,which I remember being built,but now this is closed,and due for demolition!(If there's one thing that makes you feel old, it's seeing buildings go up,then come down!!!) Leven st. no longer exists, but the "Rec" is still there,as a park,with the original houses alongside,which begs the question, why did they knock the others down,if these are still habitable? Theres a community website for Kirkdale,(just type in Kirkdale,it's easy to find)with not a lot going on,but, with some good photo's of the areas we've mentioned, from the 50's/60's.(I've included a couple of these, so thanks to Kirkdale community centre.)
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