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but im sure there was a hospital down that way, as it or some tunnels where bricked up by the council/ fire brigade many years ago.

A wartime medical centre all the way to aigburth. maybe !!

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Thats what Im talking about need to attract some attention to this Topic I supose.


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You are quite right, there was a hospital beside where New Ferry Baths were (and they were just north of the sewer works).

"Port Sanitary Hospital, New Ferry"

Here are the hospital and the baths, note the old smaller sewage works in 1970.

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Thanks for that What i am going to do is post a new Screen shot with a marker for the Baths on there aswell smile


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Heres that screenshot i mentioned.Obviously you know new ferry baths is gone but I marked it on so the older maps look easier to interpret as the quite confusing to a person of my IQ.

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Oh and I may sound stupid but can I ask what Sanitory means? Is that something to do with cleanliness or Crazyness?


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one would assume that the port sanitary hospital was for treating those who were onboard a ship with infectious disease (TB, smallpox etc) who were being quarantined when they got off.


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Thanks laugh I can see it now.Pirates with green faces lieing in hospital beds.Or have I gone back to far? laugh


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Judging by its name, could the Port Sanitary Hospital have been used as an isolation hospital for people suffering from infectious diseases who arrived in the Mersey on ships? I think most seaports had such hospitals.
This is almost certainly the same place that years later was definitely used as an isolation hospital for ordinary patients from the surrounding area. I remember it as a green wooden building in open ground behind the baths and I'm sure people were taken there during a smallpox outbreak in New Ferry in the Sixties. In the Seventies, the hospital (which was by then disused) was deliberately destroyed by being burned down to get rid of any possible lingering infection.

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but where no where near the war bunker hospital and chambers.

come on people knock your granny up and demand answers.
we want answers.
bricks tunnels the war remember nan gran !!

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Hospital built after 1875 and before 1884 because it didn't appear on the 1875 map (that area was called greenbank, don't know if it was a house or area) and in 1884 the CLARENCE REFORMATORY SCHOOL SHIP had a fire and the kids were temporarily housed in the hospital from January 'til July when they needed the hospital for a Cholera outbreak.

@yoller, yes effectively an isolation hospital, and all the other things you say rings bells as well, thankyou.


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Exactly Im gonna head down to the Central tommorow find some books on the area some maps maybe. That cliff seems like the perfect spot for a shelter/Tunnel.


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so wghat are you saying there are tunnels there

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Exactly Im gonna head down to the Central tommorow find some books on the area some maps maybe. That cliff seems like the perfect spot for a shelter/Tunnel.


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Ime not saying there are but if anyone can varify and state facts then I will be happy to admit that there is or there isnt.
But I hope there is.I now believe that there was a "Isolation Hospital" Down there at sometime during the war.And for the sake of getting patience out of danger during bombing raids the cliff next to it would be a perfect spot.


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Ok Heres a pic showing the actual shore now its taken from down stream but i have showed where the picture is actually taken from.

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