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Broad Street Hospital

I attended the orthopedic hospital in Broad Street in the early fifties and was treated by Professor Leather who I think was the father of Dianne Leather.
 
there was an orthopeadic hospital in Broad Street, when I was a child we lived at Bishopsgate Street just off Broad Street. my mum thinks it was near sheepcote Street near to where Bush House, was St Chads is more up to the Hagley Road area.
 
Darby said:
I attended the orthopedic hospital in Broad Street in the early fifties and was treated by Professor Leather who I think was the father of Dianne Leather.
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I too attended the Orthopaedic Hospital in Broad Street several times in 1951 before having an operation at the Woodlands, performed by J B Leather.
 
I attended the Orthopaedic Hospital in Broad Street for three months about 25/30 years ago for physiotherapy on my feet. The Physiotherapist was a Mr. Johnson and he was blind. He was very good.
Junie.
 
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From 1950 kellys


80 Royal Orthopedic Hospital,
Birmingham, incorporating
the Birmingham
Cripples'
Union & Royal Orthopaedic
& Spinal Hospital
(Amalgamated)
(Miss Irene Whittock,
genl. sec)
80 Royal Orthopaedic Hospital
Handicrafts Dept.
fancy goods dlrs​

It was on the corner just past Sheepcote st going out of town
mike





 
chrisange said:
there was an orthopeadic hospital in Broad Street, when I was a child we lived at Bishopsgate Street just off Broad Street. my mum thinks it was near sheepcote Street near to where Bush House, was St Chads is more up to the Hagley Road area.
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I attended the orthopeadic hospital in Broad Street in the mid 60's (effects of Rugby!!-still with me). St Chads was in Hagley Road, my dad died in there in the late 60's).
DJRVST
 
Zimbo said:
We recently ate at Old Orleans on Broad Street, which I have been told was an orthopaedic hospital. Does anybody have any info or pictures of the place from back then?
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I don't have a picture of the orthopedic hospital. That stood on the corner of Broad Street and Sheepcote Street.
It is I believe the Old Orleans restaurant now.
It was a working hospital well into the early sixties.
There was a 'Dolls Hospital' next door. My sister had her doll repaired there.

Ladywood
 
colin when did the george road skin hospital become an outpatients as I spent time as a child there in the 50's and 60's suffering with psoriasis as an inpatient and there were three wards, the childrens ward was at the top of the building, we also had schooling just off the ward the ones that could get out of bed. I still have a memoir from that period as our cleaner gave me a china bible with the lords prayer inscribed on it, but I do remember john bright street hospital being an outpatients in the 60's my mum used to take me there in between going into the george road's site.
 
Does The Neurosurgery Hospital, Holly Lane, Smethwick qualify as a Birmingham Hospital it treated patients from all over the country and abroad, it was demolished some years ago and its work was continued at the QE. Len.
 
That was my bus stopping outside the hospital!! Either the No. 9 Quinton or the No. 7 Portland Road.
 
I might be able to help you with some Hansons.
I have researched them from Worcs 1790's to Aston Birmingham 1840's.
Perry, Powell and Plaistow, Chambers are some connections.

ladywood
 
Mossy did you have the female physio that had been thrown out by Attila the Hun for cruelty?
 
My Mother attended the 'Cripples Hospital' as she had one leg longer than the other. She had to wear leg irons as a Kid and one day when she was really fed up with them she gave them to the 'rag and bone' man in exchange for a goldfish or whatever he was offering. Her poor mother went spare as they could not afford to replace them.
 
i had polio at the age of 8 months 1n 1950. i used to attend the royal orthopedic clinic in broad st between 1960 to 1990
i used to have my boots adapted to fit a caliper in the metal dept and also visited my surgeon as an outpatient his name was mr mhm harrison. he porformed several operations on me between 1960 to 1967 at the woodlands royal orthopedic hospital bristol rd nr selly oak, and i also went in to the forelands for two weeks while they decorated wards 4/5 during one of my woodlands stays. the forlands is now an housing estate. the broad st hospital is now old orleans this building was used for chiropody and i think physio. the woodlands is still operating as an orthopedic hospital


ron clarke
 
ron clarke said:
i had polio at the age of 8 months 1n 1950. i used to attend the royal orthopedic clinic in broad st between 1960 to 1990
i used to have my boots adapted to fit a caliper in the metal dept and also visited my surgeon as an outpatient his name was mr mhm harrison. he porformed several operations on me between 1960 to 1967 at the woodlands royal orthopedic hospital bristol rd nr selly oak, and i also went in to the forelands for two weeks while they decorated wards 4/5 during one of my woodlands stays. the forlands is now an housing estate. the broad st hospital is now old orleans this building was used for chiropody and i think physio. the woodlands is still operating as an orthopedic hospital


ron clarke
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Hi Ron, I remember The Orthopedic Hospital on Broad Street from my childhood.
The fifties. Ambulances and crutches.
I also remember the Woodlands on the Bristol Road in the early 60's, when I was a student.
I hope that both the hospitals were of some help to you.

ladywood
 
hi ladywood.
yes they did some good work at the woodlands and still do. i had a few operations there some were a success some were'nt and some were pioneering. bit of a guinee pig sometimes :D but i never refused any medical help. i had some good times during my stays in the woodlands. wonder if you remember any off these names, mr donelly miss bennett and mrs taylor educational teachers to the kids on wards 4 & 5. mr leather who worked in the plaster room then later he became a male sister on ward 4 or 5. sister salmon on mens ward 4. sister mckenzie on kids ward five. and a couple of notorious patients named billy rock what a terror and alan tasker both on kids ward 5. remember like it was yesterday lol:). well must shut up now as i could go on all night. all the best
ron clarke.
 
Dear Ron, I'm afraid I don't know any of the people at Woodlands, so can't be of much help.
All the best anyway.

ladywood
 
I too went to the Orthopedic in the 1950's. I remember having to pick marbles up with my toes.

Also, having wet rubber sheets wrapped around my legs and electric cables being pushed inside sheets, the cables were connected to a machine of some sort, the nurse would throw a switch on the machine which sent electric shocks up and down my legs!! HORRIBLE !

I don't really know why I had this done or whether did me any good ??
 
I worked at the orthopaedic in the 60s for about 10 months in boot making department which was a building on the left hand side of the main building it was a 3 story building with the metal shop on the ground floor boot and shoe department on the 2nd floor and the sewing department on the top floor.It is over 40 years ago since I worked there but I still have very fond memories of the people I worked with there George,Ken,Don,Bill,the 2 Harrys,Ray,Garry the Australian and Albert who retired while i was there on the day he retired we all sang puppet on a string for him happy days and happy memories.
 
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How many members know that there was a Royal Orthopaedic Hospital in Newhall Street?? This picture shows Little patients with the matron and nurses in 1897. An Orthopaedic Hospital
was in fact first established in Birmingham in the year 1817.
 
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I remember my M.I. Law god bless her when she was first treated for hip trouble at this establishment.
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I was a 10 year old (approx) when I got my shock treatment at The Royal Orthopedic, My Doctor was Mr Leather, he was the father of Dianne Leather, the first woman in the world to run a sub 4 minute mile, which she did about 3 or 4 weeks after Roger Bannister ran the very first, but where he was feted and had all the banners and flags etc, she was hardly remembered for it.

Frank
 
Jayell said:
That was my bus stopping outside the hospital!! Either the No. 9 Quinton or the No. 7 Portland Road.
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Hi. That is a No 5 bus. It used to travel from the terminus at the bottom of Selsey Road/ Portland Road to Perry Common, Court Lane. Then it came back as the Number 7. There was also a No 6 bus that began its route at Willow Avenue/ Sandon Road and then went in the same direction once the 2 buses joined on the Hagley Road. The No 9 still survives to this day.
 
My mother Gwendoline Eckersley was born in December 1917 when her mother Leah Adams was caretaker at the Cripples' Hospital on Broad Street/ Sheepcote Street (I'm sure it's mentioned on her birth certificate), so she lived out her childhood in there before moving to Poplar Road, Bearwood, when she was about 18. Every time we went past she would always point it out to me and tell me that was where she used to live when she was my age, but I never took much interest, being so young. I wish she was still alive to tell me all about it once more.
 
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I used to attend The Cripples Hospital in the 1940s because of my right foot turning in. This name was carved into the stone on the top of the building. No “Royal” or “Orthopaedic” in those days. Today it is a noisy club but I look up and see the three top right windows which used to be the children’s ward. All the foot strengthening exercises I had to do (picking up marbles with my toes) had no affect at all and my foot turns in to this day!
 
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