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Doctors

Does anyone remember Dr Hamilton in Summer Lane. As child i remember it being a pokey little room with a family living upstairs. When ever i see Pink medicine it always reminds me of him.
 
Doctor Gould was our doctor when we lived in Aston,his manner could be quite scary,but I always thought him an excellent doctor. He delivered my brother at home, he was nearly 2 months premature and was whisked off to Sorrento, he survived against all the odds. His surgery was quite a formidable place , but he always had time for you.
 
Astonite Dr Freshwater was the same and I used to suffer a lot with ear ache and ended up in hospital the once. I remember him explaining in detail about the working of the ear and I have never forgot that and it came in handy at school when a question came up in our exam. Jean.
 
hi guys
our family doctor in aston was on park rd just past the shops on the left hand side heading towards the church
on the other side was the scary doctors our doctor was dr grayson he knew is stuff and he was a true gentleman
when we left aston many years later and i had become an adult we moved to ladywood and we had a new dr and he was called dr tracy
and thats where i discovered he was the doctor that brought me and some of brothers into the world
apparently dr tracy was an surgeon as well and is surgery was in ingleby st facing the old dance pali which after the war becamer bulpitts then swan brand
just up from the spring hill libary which if the truth was known i bet i owe them afew bob for none returning of books still not to worry
and of course bulpitts then extended and built oppersite the libary and summer hill
all the best astonion
 
Jean consider yourself lucky you were'nt Dr Goulds patient, its bad enough being sick and then having to go and sit in a very depressing waiting room, but l'm only remembering all this through a childs eye, but there again in those days long ago l imagine all doctores waiting rooms were anything but cheerie....Brenda
 
Astonite, glad someone is out there who remembers Dr Gould, l know you can relate to my being scared of him,...but like you said ,he was an excellen doctor and remember him making house calls and always warmed his hands before he examined you...he had a very grough approach but looking back now he could,nt have been as bad as l thought if he warmed his hands.....took me years to realise this...Brenda
 
We lived in Nursery Rd, Hockley until 1967, Bridgit and Bernard ( Benny to family and friends) Dempsey our home was Flat 2 / 17 Nursery Rd, The house was owned by a Dr Mc Graw ? or Dr Mc Carthey ? mum is not sure of his name, i was only five so cannot recall it all. Mum recently told me the house oiriginally was a Victorian Doctors Practice. If anyone has any photos of Nursery Road i would absolutely love to see it all again as it was when we left :)
 
I do indeed remember Dr D Humpheries on Gerrard St. In fact, that is who my mom named me after. He looked after our family for countless years covering the whole range of kids illnesses with, I recall, the occassional house call which is very much a thing of the past.
 
Re: Doctor Whiley

i my self dont remember it but my doctor in the 60s-70s was a doctor wiley at greenbank nechells dont know if it is same doc but different surgery
 
As a kid living in Sheldon I remember going to Dr Donovan at the Swan Yardley too. All I can remember was that he always seemed very kind and had time for you. When we moved to Dorridge our GP was Dr Thorpe and we called him Gentleman George, he was lovely.
 
when a little boy in edgbaston Dr Rose, he always had a flower in his lapel, and sweet in his pocket and a lovelly smile, in weoley castle Dr Judge, a big Irishman with hands the size of bog shovels, brisque but good, sewed my hand up once with no anasthetic when I was about 10yrs old.
paul
 
Does anyone remember Dr Gubbins? He was our doctor from Ashted Row later moving to the new health centre at Greenbank House. He always used to ask my Mom to choose what she thought was the best pills to give to her. You could hardly breathe in his surgery as he seemed to be a chain smoker. I did love him though he was a kind man.
 
Hi, I'm moving out to Cotteridge with my Doctor memory. We went to Dr. McCulloch on Middleton Hall Road. He had been with the Royal Army Medical Corps during WW2, but had always been my Mom's and my grandparents' doctor. He didn't suffer fools gladly but was a caring family doctor. However, because he delivered me I suppose, he was quick to give advice which was probably medically sound, but as a teenage girl I really didn't want to be told that I should be wearing a vest when he wanted to listen to my chest. However, at the same appointment he also told me off for going to the surgery as I wasn't well enough to be out and I should have phoned for a home visit. Can you imagine doctors today saying that!!
 
Hi,

When I lived in the Stechford area in the 1950's/early 60's,
our doctor was Dr. Segall in Victoria Road. He used to prescribe
Disprin for just about everything! I also remember
Dr Ozimek in Station Road, and Dr Artingstall in Wash Lane.

Kind regards

Dave
 
Hi dave
i can recall dr seagul very well; it was my late
mother inlaws doctor and no wonder the nhs is going bankrupt
he was giving out pills by the thousands my dear old late mother inlaw died some years back she lived up mannor rd
and she had a liking for the codine pills she must have gone there every week for a supply she never really needed them but she stocked piled them when she died we found about fifty boxes full of them ; its abit like out here in worcestshire
we had a new doctor come out in the practice and he prescribed pills for my old dutchess;she is just the opersite
she said no i do not want them ; he said thats amazing you are the first patient out to decline he said they are giving out to people
in this practice like smarties ; ; this new doc ; came from staffordshire
i know of another doc; in brum ; is just the oppersite he encourages people to skank the system ; his motto get what you can out of the system what do you want me to put on your note astonian;
 
Hi,does anyone remember the doctors houses on Ashted Row,Dr Tigh was the first house,it had a large bay window in the gable end.The next house was Dr O'keefe who was our doctor his daughter Eileen became a doctor and joined the practise,she later became Dr Attwood,i remember Dr O'keefe vaguely he smoked in the surgery.I remember Eileen Attwood better she knew and called everyone by first names,i remember going for my jabs as a kid and 4 people had to hold me down it was still the same when they moved to nechells health centre.Those were the days before computers.
 
Used to live on the corner of Streetly and Shortheath Road Erdington, and our doctor was Dr Condon, who was in the first house past the Short Heath Shops going down Streetly Rd (65 bus terminus). Buchans the chemist was the last shop on that side
 
Dr Burgess was our doctor when we lived in Handsworth. His surgery was on Soho Road opposite the few shops which joined the corner of Villa Road. A lovely man and always willing to come out and see you at home if you couldn't get to the surgery and always had time to talk to you.
 
Used to live on the corner of Streetly and Shortheath Road Erdington, and our doctor was Dr Condon, who was in the first house past the Short Heath Shops going down Streetly Rd (65 bus terminus). Buchans the chemist was the last shop on that side
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Remember him well, Irish guy; smoked cigars while telling you that you should stop smoking.

No appointment, you just took a seat in the waiting room and took your turn; he had a buzzer button hanging from the ceiling by his desk.

Just him and his wife running the whole lot. He lived well into his eightys.
 
I remember Dr Aberdeen as a nice doctor. I remember too the shelties that he had stuffed when they died, and they were in his consulting room! I believe the building he practiced in was sold to ATV. He used to abandon his car in the middle of the road rather than park it! He was a very very observant doctor and often knew why the patient was attending his surgery before they had sat down!
 
My wife used the surgery on Chester road and recalls how the Doctor used to tell the patients in the waiting room to get back to work, similar to the Doctor we used in Great Barr who was the Post Office Doctor and never believed in sick notes, how times have changed.
 
Talking of doctors in Shard End, mine was an old Polish chap called Dr Nitzke, who had his surgery in an old house in School Lane, near the junction with the Chester Road. The waiting room was the front room, only small. As soon os one patient left the back consulting room, the next one went in. No appointments then! That room was dark with a very old gas fire. When you sat down he used to peer at you over his desk with his small glasses. A man of few words. I had a soft spot for him as he delivered me when I was born at home. After he retired he lived in Timberley Lane.
 
Park%20Lane%20004.jpgjust found this photo...is this the doctor masseys surgery at park lane that has been mentioned on this thread..

lyn
 
In the 1950`s i lived in Gt Colmore st Edgebaston our doctor was Dr Lorset in Cregoe St i remember as a lovely man as i spent a lot of time at the doctors when i was a child.
When we moved to Aston and lived in Tower Road it was Dr Gittins across Park Lane down another road which i can`t remember.
 
We had two Doctors at our surgery in Great Barr, Drs Calderwood and McConnel, the waiting room was always full when Dr McConnel was on duty but usually half empty when Dr Calderwood was on. We all lived in fear of Dr Calderwood as he was the Post Office Doctor and certainly didn't suffer fools gladly.
 
When we lived in Ford Street our Doctors was on the corner of Farm Street and Villa Street. Dr Target and his son, who was also the Aston Villa's Doctors.
 
Dr deReybekill (not sure if I spelt that right) in Grove Lane was our doctor. I remember the funny green chairs in the waiting room and waiting for the buzzer to go which invited the next victim, I mean patient, to cross the hallway and enter the surgery. He was a nice old chap and came out to see me once when I was off school with measles - except I remember mom getting very embarassed and apologising that I was playing outside in the garden instead of resting indoors. I remember him syringing a blocked ear once with water which must have come direct from the Arctic - he said it was warm!! It made me cry and he drew a picture of a rabbit with big ears to cheer me up! Is there a thread about dentists somewhere?
 
HI THERE
Does anybody recal a doctor smith on white head rd aston ;he used to have a big american caddliac pink in fact
parked out side is surgery and he had a steel bars fitted to his surgery door windows
it was oppersite the old white swann pub on the corner of whitehead rd and victoria rd
way back in the late fiftys he started to charge his patients 50 pence per visit but they soon told him where to go and some
Patients changed there doctor emediately he got in to trouble by the NHS and was stopped our aunty edith whom lived in park street next to the vine pub was a patient of his we lived across the rd from his surgery at 47 victoria rd
but every time edith visit us whe calling at the doctors she would pop over and have a cuppa tea with mother
as my mom was her sister inlaw my dads sister and she said guess what we have to pay fifty pence per visit so i think i will be changing she said and so she did
I reckon it was to cover the petrol cost of his yankee car ; best wishes Astonian
 
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