19 Lode Lane - Solihull Cottage Hospital

[Solihull Girl]

My birth certificate gives the above address which my mother always called the "cottage hospital". My sister, born two years later, was delivered in the new Solihull Hospital. Does anyone have information on 19 Lode Lane please? Thanks in advance.

 

[pjmburns]

You don't give a date but before the "new" hospital was built there were a couple of old large houses both of which, I think, were used as maternity units. One was "Netherwood" I was born there in the 1950s.
19 was actually opposite the hospital and was called Brook House. Click on the link for a map

View map: Ordnance Survey, SP1579NW - B - Ordnance Survey 1:1250 scale map - Ordnance Survey National Grid Maps, 1940s-1970s

 

[Solihull Girl]

Hi Janice
Thanks for this - I was born in the late 50's, so Brook House sounds right.

 

[Solihull Girl]

I found Netherwood on Facebook (only I do not have access)

 

[pjmburns]

I don't do Facebook either. I remember those houses.
The site of Brook House was roughly where Ardenlea Grove Nursing home now is.