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Sanitorium Yardley Rd.

Hi ...i worked at yardley green hospital .later called the chest branch of east bham hospital now heartlands. .it was mainly used for t.b. Patients...the little isolation huts were in the grounds...i left in 1968 to have my son ...we all had stringent tests and xrays and vaccinations for our protection....
 
Stabilator said:
Anyone ever hear of a Yardley Rd. Sanitorium in Birmingham? I wonder if any employment records exist for 1918? Thanks

I'm also looking for the City Sanitorium in Yardley Green Road, Saltley (I think it was also called Mother & baby Home, Yardley Baby Sanitorium} as I am wondering if any records exist for 1936/37. Have you discovered where the records are?
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Hello there! I was a patient in G ward from oct 60 to aug 61, my doctor was also Dr Ross, he used to scare me to death but a brilliant doctor.I remember nurse Daniels,nurse Brown,nurse Sweeny,staff nurse Wright,Sister Monahan,Miss Parker and Miss Young were our teachers.Do you remember Pat Irving? she had TB on here spine and was on a special frame. Remember all those Strep injections with blunt needles! and the awful tasting PAS mint or ribena flavour!
Regards,Pat
 
I can remember, just before I started work after the Army going with Enid for an appt; at Yardley Green San as she called
it, she had TB some years before, it was her final visit they discharged her, saying she would grow out it which she did.
Anyone who
remembers the smog and air pollution, everyone with coal fires and the local factories belching out smoke and filth can
understand why we had so much chest troubles.The "Clean Air Act" did wonders for Brum. Bernard
 
patperks said:
Hello there! I was a patient in G ward from oct 60 to aug 61, my doctor was also Dr Ross, he used to scare me to death but a brilliant doctor.I remember nurse Daniels,nurse Brown,nurse Sweeny,staff nurse Wright,Sister Monahan,Miss Parker and Miss Young were our teachers.Do you remember Pat Irving? she had TB on here spine and was on a special frame. Remember all those Strep injections with blunt needles! and the awful tasting PAS mint or ribena flavour!
Regards,Pat
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Hello Pat
Thank you for recalling some names and memories I'd forgotten. We must have missed each other by only a few months, I was there from Feb '62 until December '62. And again a few months later for another 3 months. The girl on the spinal plaster bed next to me was named Linda, she was about 12 years old.

Who could forget the medications, especially the egg-sized lumps that appeared after the Strep injections!

Do you remember Norman, the ward orderly/porter. And also the craft lady who brought in the supplies for baskets and other things. I'm blowed if I can remember her name. Do you remember her?

The only teacher I had was Miss Young, I think. Was she the one who wore glasses and bright red lipstick?

I wish I could say they were the good old days, but they weren't.

Thanks for the memories, Regards, Ivy
 
Bernard67Arnold said:
I can remember, just before I started work after the Army going with Enid for an appt; at Yardley Green San as she called
it, she had TB some years before, it was her final visit they discharged her, saying she would grow out it which she did.
Anyone who
remembers the smog and air pollution, everyone with coal fires and the local factories belching out smoke and filth can
understand why we had so much chest troubles.The "Clean Air Act" did wonders for Brum. Bernard
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Remember it well, in the 50s driving? home from Smethwick, My mother had to walk in front of the bloody car with a flash light. Also walking down moat lane in pea soup fog (SMOG) feeling the wall to find my way. Seems Dad started using coke? instead of coal? John Crump OldBrit
 
Hello Ivy

Thank's for replying so soon, I think it was Mrs Willan who you are thinking of who used to teach us basket making and how to make all the different soft toys. Do you know fifty years on, I still have some of the toys I made.

Miss Young was the teacher who wore bright red lipstick, I wonder what happened to Miss Parker?, as she was really good. We used to pretend to be asleep after rest hour to get out of school work, she used to come in and just sit there it was a shame. Sometimes we used to lock the teachers out as well!
I don't remember Norman, but I do remember Violet who was a ward orderly, she was lovely. I was on strict bed for some time and my bed was on drainage posture because I had a cavity on my right lung which wouldn't close.
Can you remember any names of patients who were in with you? I'm surprised Pat, the girl I mentioned before wasn't still in there with you, as she was quite poorly.
Did Dr Toal still do the ward rounds with Dr Ross?

Kind Regards

Pat
 
Hi Pat
This is a late reply to a question you asked on your last entry on the forum.
When I went into G ward (side ward) in Feburary 1962 there were only two other girls there. One went home the following day. I can't remember her name I was too sick at the time. I was put next to the other girl who was on a plaster bed, I know she had been quite ill. She was there for most of 1962 having to learn to walk again. It could be the same girl you referred to as Pat, the one I thought was named Linda. We weren't on our own for too long though. In no time the ward was full. There was also a girl who came on to the ward for a short while to finishing her schooling, her name was Janet. She could possibly have been there at the same time as you. With regard to Dr Toal, I'm sorry I don't remember him at all.
Kind Regards, Ivy
 
My mum, born in 1926, lost her father and one of her brothers to TB when she was 10 and afterwards mum and her older brother had to have a Heaf test (the one on the wrist) to see whether they had been exposed to tuberculosis. Mum was clear, but her brother had to go into Yardley Sanatorium and her mum was only allowed to visit on Sunday afternoons.

Mum says she used to dread Sundays because she would have to wait outside the Sanatorium for 2 hours by some big gates so the gatekeeper could keep his eye on her. I showed her the photo of the Hospital Lodge, Yardley Road, from the link above and she said that was the place she had to wait and she still remembers the gatekeeper looking down at her.

https://www.bhamb14.co.uk/index_files...AMHOSPITAL.htm
 
hi...i worked there in the 60s.the old cabins were still out in the grounds where they were quarantined ...very primitive ....my brother had t.b. when he was 17.he was sent to romsley to recover he was there for 3 months.....we were all tested and i was retested when i worked there .i remember i worked on the theatre for a short time ...bit of a difference now.lol......
 
My grandma has mentioned the mother and baby home, but this was Yardley towards Acocks Green near the cemetrey. She went there to have her first baby during the war. The baby caught an infection but sadly passed away. I may be wrong but I dont think they are the same as the Yardley Green Sanitotium.
 
Hi there to all who have contributed
I've just found an old photo taken around 1962 at Yardley Green Sanatorium with myself (right) and Noreena (left). If anyone recognises her I'd love to hear.
Regards, IvyIvy and Noreena.jpg
 
My second great grandfather George Mcllvine / mcilveen died in 1916 in the Sanatorium yardley road
 
I have a few photos of my great aunt (Dorothy "Dolly" Cooper) in the sanatorium in the early 1920's with her friends and nurses. She was there as a patient with what she used to call her TB knee. She mentions nurses Johnson and Davey on her photos.
 
It was between the 1924 and 1932 Kellys directories. The electoral roll does not list it in 1930, but does in 1932. Therefore it is reasonable to say between 1930 and 1932
 
mikejee said:
It was between the 1924 and 1932 Kellys directories. The electoral roll does not list it in 1930, but does in 1932. Therefore it is reasonable to say between 1930 and 1932
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Thanks for that. The only Yardley Road I have ever known runs from the Swan Island to Acocks Green station.
 
Matron Miss W Davis presented with prams for the Sanatorium in July 1953. Viv.

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My great grandfather John Robinson died there of TB in 1938
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I was thinking about the TB hospital earlier to day. I had found the information that a relative had died of TB in 1943 aged 48 and that his death was recorded at Selly Oak hospital. I wondered why he wasn't in the isolation hospital at Yardley/Little Bromwich as his home was just off Hobmoor Rd. But it was wartime and maybe the hospital was being used in a different way. I can remember travelling upstairs on the bus along Hobmore Rd and seeing patients with beds pushed out for fresh air.
 
I’ve just caught up with this thread. I worked in the admissions/discharge office, facing the Children’s ward. In the main gates turning left after the porters lodge. It was my first job and being a 16 year old I couldn’t have started anywhere greater than that place. I could write reams about it I loved it. Some have asked about previous records about the patients, when I was there I discovered several volumes (beautiful italic ink writing) of admissions and discharges of people going way back. Names, address and date of birth were included - they must be stored somewhere!
Hope this helps people.
 
if anyone has a photo of the outside of this sanitorium we would love to see them many thanks

lyn
 
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