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I lived not too far from the Isolation Hospital in Catherine-de-Barnes, from 1965 until 1978. I was always grateful to be on the same electricity grid as the hospital because we never lost power during the many outages that happened during that era. I believe the isolation hospital was closed...
I am very interested about the building referred to. I lived in Gilbertstone Avenue from 1943 and attended a school at the Wagon Lane side of the playing fields. It was a smallish building (I wonder now if it was the hospital/workhouse you refer to). It was called Wagon Lane School. I went...