Convalescent Home

[RogFromBrum]

In 1956, aged about 6, I was taken very seriously ill and spent a month in Dudley Road Hospital, two weeks of which were in an oxygen tent with a tracheostomy tube in place. On discharge from hospital, I was then sent to a children's convalescence home for a month.
I'm trying to find out more about this home, which I recall was located near Loughborough. Searching online, I suspect it may have been the Charnwood Forest Convalescent Home, which had an accommodation building for children at that time.

Charnwood Forest Convalescent Home

A strong memory I have is of the nurses taking us out for a walk each day in the woods and we always went past the driveway of an isolated house. We were told that a witch lived in this house and that our lives depended on us not being seen as we crossed the end of the driveway. Of course, we were all scared witless so we would dash across as fast as we could go, heads down. We never saw the occupants of the house and I don’t know whether they ever saw us – and, if they did, what they made of us scurrying past.

Did anyone else on this forum go from Birmingham to a convalescent home, as a child, around that time? And was it Charnwood?

 

[MWS]

These maps are little earlier (1929), the first shows the convalescent home for children to the south of Woodhouse Eaves and the second one for women a little further south...



My mom was in a convalescent home as a child in the 1950s in Malvern, recovering from scarlet fever I think.

 

[mw0njm.]

in 1950s they sent my sis to one in devon due to TB