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    Sorrento Hospital Nursing Home

    Yes, the conditions in 1969-70 were dire. Always dodgy getting over to the Nurses Home as you were acosted by men looking for "good time ladies" (it was on Balsall Heath Road) Mums did give breast milk to the Milk Bank. I believe it was the first in the country and developed by "Miss...
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    Selly Oak Hospital 1970s

    I have just joined this Brum sight, after having found through DNA that my great grandmother and family came from Brum. I too trained at Selly Oak in the 60's. We had 2 late passes a week but I had a screwdriver so I was in charge of unscrewing the blocks of the windows so as we could get in...
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