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SIXPENNY HOSPITAL FUND

hi did ayone have any male relatives at tyn y coed 1946.this home was used for convalescing soldiers then.
 
Hello there ,I can remember about that time, my mother was taking a bucket of boiling water out of the copper into the dolly tub and slipped and she
scolded all down her leg,she was in a right state, and finished up at a place called Barnsley Hall hospital, I cant remember where it was though,
Worcester way I think somewhere, Bye Bernard67Arnold
 
Thank you, Postie. What interesting emotions it must have evoked for men who travelled up that drive in the hope of rest during illness.
 
The convalesent home at Kewstoke was for some time women only.However,there was a place for men,in Weston-super-mare.Around the corner from the Kewstoke home is a pub, "The New Inn"and at 10pm.there used to be a call to get the paitients back to the home.
 
Bernard67Arnold said:
Hello there ,I can remember about that time, my mother was taking a bucket of boiling water out of the copper into the dolly tub and slipped and she
scolded all down her leg,she was in a right state, and finished up at a place called Barnsley Hall hospital, I cant remember where it was though,
Worcester way I think somewhere, Bye Bernard67Arnold
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Just caught up with this thread and Barnsley Hall hospital was on the outskirts of Bromsgrove Bernard, just off the Stourbridge Road. There is a housing estate on the site now with one or two of the old buildings used as Council offices.
 
mhumphreys said:
Just caught up with this thread and Barnsley Hall hospital was on the outskirts of Bromsgrove Bernard, just off the Stourbridge Road. There is a housing estate on the site now with one or two of the old buildings used as Council offices.
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Cant remember a sixpenny fund, I know there was the Hospital Saturday Fund, and at the Post
Office we had the Post Office and Civil Service Benevolent Fund, which is now Benenden Healthcare
I am still a member of that.Dont want to sound a !Olddie" but many people can not remember life
in this country without the NHS, What if you still had to pay sixpence to see your Doctor??
Why people want to interfere with it I will never know! Bernard
 
My husband pays into the BHSF through his salary.

It can be used to get a percentage off the price of spectacles and dental treatment and payments for such things as having to spend a night in hospital.

These days however the contributions are pounds rather than pence.
 
For anyone interested in the history of the Hospital Saturday fund the following link is to a pamphlet written by Sampson Gamgee, the originator of the fund, 10 years after its inauguration. It can be read or downloaded using several formats

https://archive.org/details/b2226727x
 
Hi mike
There used to be a regional office for that sat 6d hospital funds
Down on the old summer lane as to many years ago had it had a big huge poster up on boards
It was in a block of offices with a wall in front of it
If you was heading from new town towards the city it was just passing Briefly street
And there was a pub right on the street corner next to it
We had that on our weekly wage slip on our wages at Radex electrical Edward road Ladywood
It at the bottom of kingedwards red now facing the island at the back of symphony hall
And at one time years back now redundant building and taken over by the car tax vech, government
I do not k what is there now either at old summer lane nor Edwards rd the property of being
Radex. Electrical exist our kid my oldest brother was on the maintenance team around the company
He was an electrician there,he served five years Apprenticeship at the old MEB board chester street
Aston, and he was with four other guys as the Apprentice putting up the very first football team
Namely Aston villa flood lights way back in time then, and they all featured in the birmi them mail
Best wishes Alan,,, Astonian,,,,
 
Alberta said:
My husband pays into the BHSF through his salary.

It can be used to get a percentage off the price of spectacles and dental treatment and payments for such things as having to spend a night in hospital.

These days however the contributions are pounds rather than pence.
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So its still in existance then?. I used to pay into it in the mid 60s, most workers did then.
It was a helpfull fund in those days if you had to spend time in hospital.
 
Ray Barrett said:
The convalesent home at Kewstoke was for some time women only.However,there was a place for men,in Weston-super-mare.Around the corner from the Kewstoke home is a pub, "The New Inn"and at 10pm.there used to be a call to get the paitients back to the home.
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Hi my mum went to the convalescent home in Kewstoke Weston. See the attached photo ivy Stephens front row far left0123ED04-D660-4A62-B1D6-DA6A2EA8B355.jpeg
 
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