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Master Barmmie
Although there is a mention of the “Cripples Hospital, (Royal Orthopaedic Hospital) on the Thread.....Broad Street Hospital, and also in a Thread “Crippled Childrens Hospital” it is a bit disjointed and has some false info. There is a lot of history involved and it may deserve a Thread of its own.
Over on “Lichfield Lore Blog” there is an interesting question posed concerning the circular tower...
https://lichfieldlore.co.uk/2017/09/28/hospital-round/
I have added the following comment, and maybe someone can add information.
On the British listed building site The Woodlans is described as a Grade II Listed Building ... “To the left, a later unexplained circular painted brick structure with circular windows with leaded lights, dentilled brick frieze and low conical roof. Another similar circular structure at the back of the house near the former stable court, now aid out as a garden with fountain.”
In November 1907 George Cadbury presented “a fine residence, known as the Woodlands, with four acres of gardens and grounds, Northfield, to the Birmingham Crippled Children’s Union. The building will be converted into an open-air sanatorium for the treatment of tubercular and rickety children.”
It’s interesting that the Birmingham Daily Gazette says... “To no class of the unfortunate or afflicted is the sympathy more readily extended than those to whom Nature has denied the full and free use of limbs; nor is there any class which is more deserving of sympathy, for while misfortune of this kind is often aggravated by the ignorance of parents it has its ultimate origin in cases over which Nature has not yet vouchsafed mankind any effective control...”
A year later in 1908 “an architect was exercising great care in remodelling the house. The stabling being brought into requisition, and lofts being turned into open-air wards...and the possibilities of extensions being duly provided for.”
As stabling is mentioned in the listed description and in 1908, then maybe the structures were added at that date. However there was a new ward 1914, more planned 1927.
I will pose the question to the Birmingham History Forum Blog, with a reference.
Over on “Lichfield Lore Blog” there is an interesting question posed concerning the circular tower...
https://lichfieldlore.co.uk/2017/09/28/hospital-round/
I have added the following comment, and maybe someone can add information.
On the British listed building site The Woodlans is described as a Grade II Listed Building ... “To the left, a later unexplained circular painted brick structure with circular windows with leaded lights, dentilled brick frieze and low conical roof. Another similar circular structure at the back of the house near the former stable court, now aid out as a garden with fountain.”
In November 1907 George Cadbury presented “a fine residence, known as the Woodlands, with four acres of gardens and grounds, Northfield, to the Birmingham Crippled Children’s Union. The building will be converted into an open-air sanatorium for the treatment of tubercular and rickety children.”
It’s interesting that the Birmingham Daily Gazette says... “To no class of the unfortunate or afflicted is the sympathy more readily extended than those to whom Nature has denied the full and free use of limbs; nor is there any class which is more deserving of sympathy, for while misfortune of this kind is often aggravated by the ignorance of parents it has its ultimate origin in cases over which Nature has not yet vouchsafed mankind any effective control...”
A year later in 1908 “an architect was exercising great care in remodelling the house. The stabling being brought into requisition, and lofts being turned into open-air wards...and the possibilities of extensions being duly provided for.”
As stabling is mentioned in the listed description and in 1908, then maybe the structures were added at that date. However there was a new ward 1914, more planned 1927.
I will pose the question to the Birmingham History Forum Blog, with a reference.
