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Posted By: locomotive Thingwall Convalescent Hospital - 13th Sep 2014 6:53pm
Does anybody have any pictures or information about the Thingwall Children's (TB) Convalescent Hospital, which was demolished and replaced by Murrayfield in the 1980s, I was in there in 1948,I've never seen any information about the place.
Posted By: granny Re: Thingwall Convalescent Hospital - 13th Sep 2014 8:49pm
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Picture taken from here. It turned up under search for 'Thingwall Sanatorium' The other links are just snippets you maybe able to piece together.

http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/epw015959

http://www.wirralnews.co.uk/news/local-news/we-are-hit-the-hardest-6567956

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/BIRKENHEAD/2005-01/1105362228

http://content.yudu.com/Library/A1x65g/HeswallMagazineJune2/resources/15.htm

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=...ngwall%20convalescent%20home&f=false

http://www.wirralnews.co.uk/news/local-news/thanks-for-saving-bowl-6567593

Here spoken of as Thingwall Hospital

http://www.wirral.gov.uk/my-service...nts-we-hold/collections/hospital-records

Hope it helps
Posted By: locomotive Re: Thingwall Convalescent Hospital - 15th Sep 2014 12:31pm
Hello, thanks for the info, a great help, in the photo from the air, you can see the beds pushed out into the fresh air to improve your health, it must have worked I'm still here 66 years later.
Posted By: marty99fred Re: Thingwall Convalescent Hospital - 15th Sep 2014 2:04pm
Somewhat better version of the pic above.

Attached picture Thingwall Sanatorium.JPG
Posted By: suey30 Re: Thingwall Convalescent Hospital - 16th Sep 2014 7:27pm
And me I'm still here xx
Posted By: locomotive Re: Thingwall Convalescent Hospital - 17th Sep 2014 5:48pm
Thanks Marty that picture printed out very well, Suey 30, when were you there? the food left me with awful memories, eat it or else, mind you the rationing was still in force then (1948), I've never touched fish since I escaped, visiting hours were one Sunday a month for an hour. Wow.
Posted By: Raymondoj Re: Thingwall Convalescent Hospital - 21st Oct 2014 6:30pm
I was in Thingwall in 1957 for about 6 weeks up until the middle of November. We were shoved out into the open even that late in the year. We would wake up covered in leaves. I did set up a page on Friends Reunited for the hospital hoping to see some of the staff but there were very few contributors. The building at the back of the wards that looks a bit like a marquee was in fact the school. We had 2 teachers on of whom was called Miss Parry. The hospital was divided into 2 separate wards, girls and boys.
Posted By: locomotive Re: Thingwall Convalescent Hospital - 21st Oct 2014 7:19pm
I don't remember any of the teacher's names, but I remember the school, plus the very scratchy grey shirts/trouser and jerseys that you were given when you got there, I also remember the occasional escorted Sunday walks up to the reservoir, in small groups line astern like a Naval convoy. It's very nice to hear from other victims (sorry, I mean patients)
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