Suzanneiom
master brummie
All Saints Asylum, Lodge Road – 1927
I’m back researching my family tree again!
My great-granddad died in 1927, aged just 51, from General Paralysis of the Insane, which I’ve since discovered was a late complication of syphilis.
After looking back over his death certificate, I realised that the address given, 283 Lodge Road, was actually associated with All Saints Asylum in Winson Green. I hadn’t realised this before!
I’ve just emailed Birmingham Archives to ask whether any of his admission records or medical notes still exist and whether I’d be able to access them, particularly as it’s almost 100 years since his death.
I’ve done a bit of research into the hospital and found some photographs, but very few of the inside, apart from some taken much later, around the 1990s.
I also came across a fascinating photograph of the male nursing staff at Winson Green, dated 1925, which apparently went up for auction in 2024. It was quite something to think that some of those men may have cared for my great-granddad.
I just wondered whether anybody has any old photographs of All Saints, particularly the inside or the wards, or knows anything more about what the hospital was like back in the 1920s?
Also, has anybody successfully accessed patient records from that period? I’m really hoping to find out when he was admitted and how long he spent there.
Would love to hear from anyone who knows anything about the hospital or has researched relatives who were patients there.
I’m back researching my family tree again!
My great-granddad died in 1927, aged just 51, from General Paralysis of the Insane, which I’ve since discovered was a late complication of syphilis.
After looking back over his death certificate, I realised that the address given, 283 Lodge Road, was actually associated with All Saints Asylum in Winson Green. I hadn’t realised this before!
I’ve just emailed Birmingham Archives to ask whether any of his admission records or medical notes still exist and whether I’d be able to access them, particularly as it’s almost 100 years since his death.
I’ve done a bit of research into the hospital and found some photographs, but very few of the inside, apart from some taken much later, around the 1990s.
I also came across a fascinating photograph of the male nursing staff at Winson Green, dated 1925, which apparently went up for auction in 2024. It was quite something to think that some of those men may have cared for my great-granddad.
I just wondered whether anybody has any old photographs of All Saints, particularly the inside or the wards, or knows anything more about what the hospital was like back in the 1920s?
Also, has anybody successfully accessed patient records from that period? I’m really hoping to find out when he was admitted and how long he spent there.
Would love to hear from anyone who knows anything about the hospital or has researched relatives who were patients there.
that’s interesting! It’s definitely that address so that would confirm he died there. 