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Thats where I remember it and it was an almost identical building the the one in Marsh Lane
The Kingstanding development was at the time, one of the largest social housing development in Europe. I would imagine that is why they included some additional infrastructure.Thanks all. That’s sorted that one out in my mind nw. My memory is quite hazy about this one. I remember the building, even the inside, but don’t remember it being on the site marked on the map. Probably was confused about it when mum took me there as a very young child.
It’s interesting that several social services and leisure amenities are clustered around the Warren Farm circle. Like common sense was applied in the plans !!
I think several clinics were built at the same time to cater for the demand from young families on newly built estates like the Kingstanding development. There was another clinic at 560 Kings Road, Kingstanding and 810 Walsall Road.
Viv.
good point viv..welfare centres would not have been open 24/7.. even during opening hours moms to be could only contact them if they had a house phone unless of course someone went to the centre to say a baby was on the way..we never had a phone until 1973 by which time myself and 5 younger siblings had all been born...all home births except for the youngest.. doctor advised because mom was 40 best to go into hospital...i can only think that moms to be were given the addresses of local midwifes so that someone could go round and knock them up in the middle of the night as no doubt many did..also worth a thought that sometimes when no midwife was available very often an unqualified friend or neighbour stood in..wished i had asked mom more about this..This afternoon was casting my mind back to the Welfare Centre and couldn’t help wondering if the midwives for the area were based there. My mum had two home births and I remember she said Nurse Cook(e) was contacted at her home when needed. But surely in the 1940s/50s midwives had a place to work out of. If so, I presume the likes of Nurse Cook(e) would have been attached to the Warren Farm Road Centre.
Viv.
oh yes mike i had forgotten about phone boxes mind you we never used those very much as most of the people we knew did not have phones either lolLyn
There were phoneboxes. I agree about them being in a centre, but , unless the birth was occurring very close to there, I would have thought someone would have gone to the phonebox.
agreed mike so would iI agree Lyn, but for contacting the doctor/ midwife etc, I would have expected them to be used
This clinic was on the left coming from Hawthorn almost at end of Warren Farm Road near College Road . If you entered Warren Farm Road from College Road it would be the beginning of WFR and it would be on your right.The Centre opened in 1932 at 298 Warren Farm Road. It dealt with infant and maternity matters and at one point provided a nursery in the absence of adequate nursery provision in the area. It also provided classes for mothers and fathers.
Viv.
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