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    St Gerards Hospital, Coleshill

    I checked back and Mr Pastry opened the pool in October 1961. He was "playfully" pushed in fully clothed by Canon Flint the head priest from the Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart and St Teresa along by Father Hudson's Homes.
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    St Gerards Hospital, Coleshill

    Sister Laserian was over 100 when we last visited her at St Paul's Convent, Selly Park. She was completely compos mentis, had a great memory for patients and people she'd known for decades before, and a grip like iron (testament to all those years of pummeling, stretching, and massaging...
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    St Gerards Hospital, Coleshill

    Hi Celia I was in St Gerard's when Mr Pastry opened the swimming pool. Indeed I was one of the patients in the pool that day - under strict orders not to get my arm plaster wet. Initially in Ward 3/4 (next to chapel) then moved to Ward 5/6, I was in the hospiatl for 6 months for remedial surgery...
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