Birmingham City Hospital officially closes

[lmr3103]

I've just looked her up Lyn - she was a Professor of Obstetrics who saved many through her Midwife 'Flying Squads', set up in 1936.

 

[Astoness]

I've just looked her up Lyn - she was a Professor of Obstetrics who saved many through her Midwife 'Flying Squads', set up in 1936.

thanks lynn...shame her name will now be erased along with the older buildings which in my opinion are still strong and sturdy..

lyn

 

[Vivienne14]

Have created a thread for Dame Hilda Lloyd here :

Thread 'Dame Hilda Nora Lloyd Professor, Obstetrician'

Today at 8:29 AM

Hopefully the bust created by Epstein is still at Birmingham University Faculty of Medicine.

Source: British Newspaper Archive

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[Astoness]

thanks viv she sounds a remarkable woman....shame her building is being demolished but at least mark managed to get a photo of it

lyn

 

[Harry Gower]

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The Archway of Tears

The Archway of Tears at the City Hospital, Dudley Road, Birmingham
Birmingham Conservation Trust have secured funding to carry out an Options Appraisal on the Archway of Tears at the City Hospital on Dudley Road. This is the initial stage in a proposed larger project to restore the Archway of Tears – the entrance to the former Birmingham Union Workhouse.
The building was designed by J.J. Bateman and completed in 1852. It was here that people driven by poverty and circumstance arrived to be assessed for entry to the workhouse. Its evocative name reflects the sorrow suffered by new arrivals as families were split by gender and age to relevant living and working areas.

A bit behind times with this post im afraid, it was demolished, and "dumped" in 2017.

 

[Astoness]

A bit behind times with this post im afraid, it was demolished, and "dumped" in 2017.

yes much to the disgust of many people including carl chinn...demolished with no notice even though many thought at least the archway should have remained as a memorial to those who entered it...i know that workhouses have a bad name but they were also the saviour of many men women and children who would otherwise have ended up walking the streets...we must not forget that...

lyn