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Little Bromwich Hospital
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Key Hill Brian
Proud Brummie
Re: little bromage hospital
Little Bromwich hospital is on Yardley Green Road, diagonally opposite the back of Eat Birmingham Hospital.
Later called Yardley Green Hospital, it has been used for Geriatric and Mental Health patients - it was part of the Mental Health Trust back in 1996-200 when I worked at Heartlands. Unsure if it still stands or has been redeveloped for housing. Think they built an Old Folks home on part of the site?
Not been down that way for some years now.
Brian
Little Bromwich hospital is on Yardley Green Road, diagonally opposite the back of Eat Birmingham Hospital.
Later called Yardley Green Hospital, it has been used for Geriatric and Mental Health patients - it was part of the Mental Health Trust back in 1996-200 when I worked at Heartlands. Unsure if it still stands or has been redeveloped for housing. Think they built an Old Folks home on part of the site?
Not been down that way for some years now.
Brian
Phil
Gone, but not forgotten.
Re: little bromage hospital
I think Little Bronwich Hospital has gone completely now after serving many years as a sanatorium and isolation hospital, the thinking was this type of hospital was no longer required. I believe that on the site now there is a school and a secure mental health centre. Here are a couple of early photos of the Lodge House and the wards when it was a sanatorium.
I think Little Bronwich Hospital has gone completely now after serving many years as a sanatorium and isolation hospital, the thinking was this type of hospital was no longer required. I believe that on the site now there is a school and a secure mental health centre. Here are a couple of early photos of the Lodge House and the wards when it was a sanatorium.
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PatHayward
master brummie
Re: little bromage hospital
I wad in Little Bromwich when I was five years old in 1941 with whooping cough and double pneumonia and our ward was opposite to the Diptheria ward on the first floor. We were all wheeled out onto open - air balconies all day however cold it wad and we could wave to children in your ward. I wad in there for six weeks and parents were only allowed to visit once a week on the promise that we would not cry when we saw them with their masks and gowns on but of course we always did. It wad very scary to be without your Mom and Dad for such a long time.
I wad in Little Bromwich when I was five years old in 1941 with whooping cough and double pneumonia and our ward was opposite to the Diptheria ward on the first floor. We were all wheeled out onto open - air balconies all day however cold it wad and we could wave to children in your ward. I wad in there for six weeks and parents were only allowed to visit once a week on the promise that we would not cry when we saw them with their masks and gowns on but of course we always did. It wad very scary to be without your Mom and Dad for such a long time.
PatHayward
master brummie
Re: little bromage hospital
Sorry Pejoy - I forgot to address this reply to you - my apologies!!!
Sorry Pejoy - I forgot to address this reply to you - my apologies!!!
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Re: little bromage hospital
Little Bromwich Fever Hospital was entered from Bordesley Green East, just below the Broadway Pub at the bottom of the hill when I was young in the late 20s-30s and 40s. My friends father lived in the house along side the gates. He was in charge of something in the hospital. We used to play snooker in the games room and was there when bombs were dropped in the grounds in the Blitz. The hospital on Yardley Green Road was the Sanatorium for T.B.
GEFF
Little Bromwich Fever Hospital was entered from Bordesley Green East, just below the Broadway Pub at the bottom of the hill when I was young in the late 20s-30s and 40s. My friends father lived in the house along side the gates. He was in charge of something in the hospital. We used to play snooker in the games room and was there when bombs were dropped in the grounds in the Blitz. The hospital on Yardley Green Road was the Sanatorium for T.B.
GEFF
paul stacey
master brummie
Re: little bromage hospital
My mom was in "Little Bromwich Hospital", she had "Glandular Fever", and was very ill for some months.Paul
My mom was in "Little Bromwich Hospital", she had "Glandular Fever", and was very ill for some months.Paul
NORTHFIELD
master brummie
Re: little bromage hospital
I was in Little Bromwich Isolation hospital (originally City Hospital) for 2 months in 1951. It was in Yardley Green Rd. It wasn't the same building as the sanatorium.
I was in Little Bromwich Isolation hospital (originally City Hospital) for 2 months in 1951. It was in Yardley Green Rd. It wasn't the same building as the sanatorium.
Phil
Gone, but not forgotten.
Re: little bromage hospital
I've grown up and lived my life believing that the sanatorium on Yardley Green Rd was Little Bromwich Hospital. In the 70's & 80's we supplied skips for all the hospitals in Birmingham and even the buying department who ordered the skips referred to the Yardley Green Rd site as Little Bromwich when ordering an exchange of skips. Though looking on the early maps I can see we were all wrong and it was indeed what we knew as East Bimingham Hospital that was indeed Little Bromwich Hosptal.
I've grown up and lived my life believing that the sanatorium on Yardley Green Rd was Little Bromwich Hospital. In the 70's & 80's we supplied skips for all the hospitals in Birmingham and even the buying department who ordered the skips referred to the Yardley Green Rd site as Little Bromwich when ordering an exchange of skips. Though looking on the early maps I can see we were all wrong and it was indeed what we knew as East Bimingham Hospital that was indeed Little Bromwich Hosptal.
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NORTHFIELD
master brummie
Re: little bromage hospital
Thanks for posting the map Phil. I've not seen that one.
Here's a photo of the Isolation Hospital.
Thanks for posting the map Phil. I've not seen that one.
Here's a photo of the Isolation Hospital.
wallyb71
master brummie
Re: little bromage hospital
I to was in Little Bromwich Hospital way back in 1940 when I was 13yrs old. I had Diptherea and was ready to pass out of this world. I remember there used to be air raids at night when the German bombers came over and the nurses had to rush around the ward covering each patient with a thick red blanket incase a window got blown out and all the glass came down on your bed. The nurses used to slide under the nearest bed and stay there until the allclear sirens sounded. It wasn't a very pleasant period in my life, but I survived it and I'm now 87yrs old.
Have a nice day you all
I to was in Little Bromwich Hospital way back in 1940 when I was 13yrs old. I had Diptherea and was ready to pass out of this world. I remember there used to be air raids at night when the German bombers came over and the nurses had to rush around the ward covering each patient with a thick red blanket incase a window got blown out and all the glass came down on your bed. The nurses used to slide under the nearest bed and stay there until the allclear sirens sounded. It wasn't a very pleasant period in my life, but I survived it and I'm now 87yrs old.
Have a nice day you all
PatHayward
master brummie
Re: little bromage hospital
Re Little Bromwich Hospital
yes I remember those bright red blankets and you were also wrapped in them in the ambulance bringing you to the hospital. Do you remember your clothes and toys being taken off you when you arrived and they were destroyed because of the infections. When you started getting better and were able to get out of bed clothes and toys were provided for you on the ward. I remember there were quite a few Nuns who were nursing on the ward. I think the whooping cough ward was Ward 21.
Re Little Bromwich Hospital
yes I remember those bright red blankets and you were also wrapped in them in the ambulance bringing you to the hospital. Do you remember your clothes and toys being taken off you when you arrived and they were destroyed because of the infections. When you started getting better and were able to get out of bed clothes and toys were provided for you on the ward. I remember there were quite a few Nuns who were nursing on the ward. I think the whooping cough ward was Ward 21.
Erdington Girl
Brummie babby
Little Bromwhich hospital is now the heartlands in Birmingham. My mom was a fever nurse and worked there in 1943 onwards.
Lady Penelope
master brummie
My son caught measles whilst in Good Hope hospital being treated for febrile convulsions. They sent him to Heartlands (would it have been called that in 1980?) as they still had the facilities to isolate infectious patients and Good Hope didn't.
Lady Penelope
master brummie
Hi Janice, nice to meet you yesterday and yes, thank you, that sounds right.
pjmburns
master brummie
Nice to meet you too and put a face to a name.
Hi bryan
The mental health trust still excist its across the road facing the hospital
they have turned the old hearing centre and the mental health centre into one large mental health security unit
for serious ill patients for long term sentence by the courts for indefinate periods
its a masive complex going back right through to hob moor road they have built these little bunolows for patients to support them selves
still within the complex grounds at the rear side the complex is surrounded by huge steel and electronic gates
all around the complex escape proof . i think its called the triangle or some think sounds like it
along the road there is some old peoples house been built as well
best wishes Astonian,,,,,
The mental health trust still excist its across the road facing the hospital
they have turned the old hearing centre and the mental health centre into one large mental health security unit
for serious ill patients for long term sentence by the courts for indefinate periods
its a masive complex going back right through to hob moor road they have built these little bunolows for patients to support them selves
still within the complex grounds at the rear side the complex is surrounded by huge steel and electronic gates
all around the complex escape proof . i think its called the triangle or some think sounds like it
along the road there is some old peoples house been built as well
best wishes Astonian,,,,,
Anthony N Dowling
New Member
I to was in Little Bromwich Hospital in 1949 aged 3 growing up nobody spoke about my illness it was all hush hush I had a lumbar puncture while there.My Doctor in 2014 told me that I had Meningitis I realise now that I am lucky to be alive so a big THANK YOU to the NHS.
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Williamstreeter
master brummie
Anthony I too had meningitis I was in LBH in 1957 , my mother was frightened to death . Reason is a female cousin of mine in the ROI died with it about 8yrs earlier , I had a couple of lumbar punctures while there came out and had another couple of weeks off school to recuperate . The strange thing about it was when our GP was called out after I took bad , he said it was a bad cold/flu when he was called again his locum came and got me into LBH straight away
sospiri
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
So that's what it looked like from the outside. I was in there for seven weeks with diptheria in either 1942 or 43. I can remember that the beds seemed very high off the floor. The kid in the next bed to me had a box of quality coloured pencils that my parents could never afford and one day he dropped one on the floor. No staff were about and I egged him on to get out of bed and retrieve it, something that we were forbidden to do. With no one in sight, I called him a wimp (or whatever was the favourite equivalent word at that time), and got out of bed to get it myself. Out of nowhere I felt the hand of a nurse on my shoulder and seconds later another showed up, loudly shouting at me for getting out of bed. The upshot of this was that minutes later I was put back to bed in a straitjacket for the remainder of my stay.
I also remember the nightly supper routine, each getting a coarse earthenware basin containing either bread & milk (sop) or oxtail soup. We were each previously asked which we would like for supper each night and I had always chosen sop. This particular night the oxtail soup smelled really good, so I opted to have that, and it really was good. But that night, it really worked wonders for my gastric system and gave me diarrhoea and I messed the bed! Early that morning all Hell let lose, and the bed had to be stripped and me given a thorough washing. It was sop for supper every night from then on, though it tasted very bland after that oxtail soup.
I can't remember a visit from my parents at all during my stay, and 75 years on, I can't recollect any other details of my stay. But some months later, scarlet fever was doing the rounds, and my mother told me that if I caught it, it would most likely mean another spell in Little Bromwich. Thank goodness that never materialised.
Maurice
I also remember the nightly supper routine, each getting a coarse earthenware basin containing either bread & milk (sop) or oxtail soup. We were each previously asked which we would like for supper each night and I had always chosen sop. This particular night the oxtail soup smelled really good, so I opted to have that, and it really was good. But that night, it really worked wonders for my gastric system and gave me diarrhoea and I messed the bed! Early that morning all Hell let lose, and the bed had to be stripped and me given a thorough washing. It was sop for supper every night from then on, though it tasted very bland after that oxtail soup.
I can't remember a visit from my parents at all during my stay, and 75 years on, I can't recollect any other details of my stay. But some months later, scarlet fever was doing the rounds, and my mother told me that if I caught it, it would most likely mean another spell in Little Bromwich. Thank goodness that never materialised.
Maurice
Cherryontop
New Member
Hi everyone, i've just received my great-grandfather's death certificate and he died in 153 Yardley Green Road which thanks to this forum i've learnt was a TB hospital which is what he died of sadly in August 1946. Bit of a long shot but were there any patients there at that time on this forum who possibly knew or remembered him?! Alfred George Mewis, he would have been 63 at the time. Thanks in advance.
I had my tonsils out in Litle Bromwich Hospital in 1958. I lived near to Selly Oak Hospital so I don’t know why I was sent there.
Lady Penelope
master brummie
Little Bromwich hospital is now Heartlands hospital, in Bordesley Green. Built originally as an infectious diseases hospital. My son was in Good Hope in the 1980's and caught measles. He had to be taken to Heartlands and put in isolation. Another relative may have been in the hospital at the same time as you - he caught diptheria after going to Devon for his holidays and playing near the sewage outfall pipe which emptied onto the beach (I'm sure it doesn't now).
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mw0njm.
A Brummie Dude
History
The hospital has its origins in an infectious diseases hospital known as City Hospital, Little Bromwich which was completed in June 1895. Intended for activation only at times of medical emergency, it was tasked with responding to a typhoid fever outbreak in 1901. Three additional pavilions and a nurses' home were added in 1904. It treated patients with scarlet fever, measles, diphtheria and tuberculosis during the First World War.
After joining the National Health Service as Little Bromwich Hospital in 1948, it became a general hospital in 1953. It was renamed East Birmingham Hospital in 1963 and saw considerable expansion in the 1970s.The world's last smallpox patient, Janet Parker, was treated at the hospital during the smallpox outbreak in 1978. It became Heartlands Hospital in 1993.
The hospital has its origins in an infectious diseases hospital known as City Hospital, Little Bromwich which was completed in June 1895. Intended for activation only at times of medical emergency, it was tasked with responding to a typhoid fever outbreak in 1901. Three additional pavilions and a nurses' home were added in 1904. It treated patients with scarlet fever, measles, diphtheria and tuberculosis during the First World War.
After joining the National Health Service as Little Bromwich Hospital in 1948, it became a general hospital in 1953. It was renamed East Birmingham Hospital in 1963 and saw considerable expansion in the 1970s.The world's last smallpox patient, Janet Parker, was treated at the hospital during the smallpox outbreak in 1978. It became Heartlands Hospital in 1993.
Hi pat I have been researching a little about little Bromwich hospital. Came across the site . I actually trained at east Birmingham hospital in 1975 to 1978 was searching for old pictures of the original little Bromwich hospital. My uncle was a patient their before I was born . Polio . He survived .
