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Thanks for the reply, I am so glad someone else remembered Dr Gibson, I think he emigrated about 1964/65.
 
My family had Dr Aberdeen and it was him who told my mom to have his replacement Dr Smith he was young and full of knowledge, she was a patient of Dr Smith till she passed away 13years ago . Dr Smith still practices in The Surgery Whitehead Road Aston.
 
It was Doctor Gibson from Upper Thomas Street that emigrated to Australia in the 60's. My family used to travel from Alum Rock to see him as he was such a good doctor.
 
where we lived on high st /park lane i used to spends hours when i was bored staring out of an upstairs window into dr masseys surgery,every now and again someone in the waiting room would look up and i would pull a face at them (still do that now,but dont get the same results),sometimes the doc would be pottering about and he would look up and wave and shout ,i will tell yer mum if you dont go away,people didnt seem to mind then,do it now and look at someone next thing they are seeing councellors for stress,when i was very very small(37)i use to shout out the window to the ladies coming out of masseysSAW YOU WITH YER CLOTHES OFF MISSUS,then they would come banging on our door to tell me mom,by this time i was hiding in the cellar 8)
 
you're a norty boy Dolly
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Seeing as you're on the subject of doctors Pete, why don't you tell everyone about the time that you got your 'wig-wag' caught in your zip. Over to you Mr disaster area.
 
even me wouldnt repeat that one/i have SOME decency/cant go back there :2funny:
 
Smallpox

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does anyone remember the smallpox scare, when we had to be vaccanated against it.
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Oh yes, I remember that.
Janet Parker, the woman who died, lived next door to an aunt of mine who was required to be isolated for 3 weeks as she had bed-bathed Janet when she first contracted the disease. I'd visited my aunt the day before the news broke, and the next day had to go to Dr. Surinder Bakshi's (Birmingham's Chief Medical Officer) offices in Congreve Street to be innoculated. "Don't worry" he said, "You won't catch it". Neither did my aunt, who is now 97 years old. Can't tell you why, still, but note that the contaminated lab. at Birmingham University, and Janet Parker's house were 'decontaminated' by the Army's Porton Down germ warfare unit.
 
hi anyone remember dr tighe does anyone know what happened to him i to had sunray treament down john bright st somewhere used to have to where big goggles very strange love to you all mary
 
My doctor when I was young was a Dr Topping his surgery was at the top end of Park Lane, he always smelt of whisky and I remember mom giving him a tot when he came.
 
Patty said:
My doctor when I was young was a Dr Topping his surgery was at the top end of Park Lane, he always smelt of whisky and I remember mom giving him a tot when he came.
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Hi Patty, My wife, an Aston girl from Church Lane says that Dr Topping's surgery was in Park Road opposite Pittaways clothes shop, also her doctor was Dr Corker on the corner of Albert Road and Upper Sutton Street. He was a quiet man who used to look over the top of his glasses.
 
I have a Doctors note signed by Dr Kelly, he wrote it out for my Aunt Eva, it's dated 1959.
 
I have a wee story about Doctors that happened just before Christmas. I work for a car -rental company at Glasgow Airport, and part of my job is being sent to the pick-up stop at the Airport, to pick up our customers and ferry them the half a mile to our yard. Well a couple of days before Christmas, I picked up a man and his wife, who obviously picked up on my Brummie accent ( Ive not lost it, even after being here for 30 years ), and we where chatting on the drive round. He was asking me where about in Brum I lived, so I reeled off half a dozen areas and lastly mentioned Chelmsley Wood. Oh, he said, so if you lived on Chelmsley, you will know where the Doctors surgery is then ?. I told him I couldnt remember the street, but yes, I vagually remembered it, as this was our families surgery. He then surprised me by telling me that he was Dr.****** from that surgery. Well I dont ever remember going to see him personally, but the fact that he worked in the same place as our own Doctor was quite a surprise. I asked him about our own Doctor, and he told me that he had just retired, aged 72. Talk about a small world. Barry.
 
That just shows what a small world it is BazzM, was it craigs croft surgery, as this was my doctors when I lived in chelmsley wood, my doctor was dr pomeroy.
 
Our family Dr was Dr Toppin, he was ex military so at times could be very abrupt! Definately a no nonsense Dr. I seem to recall his Junior partner Dr Brewster now he was the total opposite to Dr Toppin lovely gentleman, unfortunately whilst he was still fairly young he suddenly went blind and had to leave medicine, such a shame!
 
Doctor Pomeroy was my Moms doctor he is still working in Chemsley Wood also my oldest brother Bob is still his patient
 
Now this is getting interesting. Mariew and John, our family Doctor was also Dr. Pomeroy. And the Doctor that I picked up at the airport that told me that Dr.Pomeroy had just retired was Dr.Dawson. He definately told me that. So there seems to be some confusion here. I hope we can sort this out somehow. By the way, I didnt mention the Dr. by name because I wasnt sure he would like me telling everyone. Hope to hear from one of you soon. Barry.
 
Jude Dr Topping was my Doctor I mentioned him 3 or 4 posts above.
The doctor that took his place was Dr Korsak .
 
when we lived in Pype Hayes Road our doctor was Dr Pilgrim, that was in 1930's, the surgery was on the corner of chester road and tyburn road opposite the Baggot pub
 
Our doctor in Handsworth was Dr Howard on Oxhill Road and then we changed to Dr Baird who was Scotish.:)Mo
 
My 2 daughters live on chelmsley wood and the one asked for an appointment with doctor pomeroy as he is her favourite doctor and they said he had retired and that was october or november she said, and I forgot to say he is also my nephew's god father, and my sister in law was a receptionist there years ago, so as you say BazzM it is a very small world.
 
Peter Walker said:
When I lived in Erdington Borders, our nearest doctor was S. Orville Massey, who lived at about No. 11 Warren Road, the first house on the left coming doen the hill from Hawthorn Road, and had a surgery there as well as the Astwn place/s. It was a very swanky house for the area, built on the slope so that you normally entered from the left, where there was a drive and I believe a double garage (this was in the 1930s! The frontage of the house was about about 50 feet, and there were steps from the right hand end leading up through wide a rock garden which I seem to remember was Mrs Massey's pride and joy. There was at least one lamp post in the garden with the doctor's name etched on the glass. Before the war I can remember going with my mum (we were both a bit sickly in the chest department) for sun-ray treatment, and had to sit topless in front of a Chernobyl-style radiation machine. In have survived for over 60 years, but it didn't do my mum much good, and she didn't last 20 unfortunately.
Dr Massey senior was an elder at the Chrisadelphian (?) Chapel on Six Ways, and I remember he persuaded my mother and me to go to a bazaar there in about 1940.
I think it was just after the war that Dr Massey Senior got appointed as a police surgeon, and later to the Villa.
He came to visit us a few times to give the early Penicillin injections, for which I think my parents had to pay about two guineas a time (.‚.£2.10) plus the cost of the stuff itself. This was just before the NHS came into effect in 1948, and although we were "on the panel" they would not pay for new-fangled things like that.
In about 1948 we trasferred vto a different doctor. Thinking about it now, I suspect he had enough other work, and wasn't interested in NHS patients, but I don't mean any slight to his sons, whom I'm afraid I don't remember, only a daughter I think.
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Dr Massey was our doctor Peter, his sons were boat race oarsmen, Oxford/Cambridge?:) don't know.

He had a big Humber car and asked my mother if I'd go up and clean it for him, gave me sixpence, tight fisted sod. E.
 
Our Doctor was Dr Malim Cole Hill Sutton Coldfield he was also ex millitary and a little abrupt but he was a very good doctor. He was very kind to my Mom when Dad died of a massive heart attack in 1969.
 
Hi Patty, yes Dr Korsak became my Dr too. I'm sure Dr Brewster was A junior Dr with Dr Toppin (he actually delivered me in 1947). I'm sure Dr Korsak took over from him, Dr Brewster. I know he used to come and see my parents socially as we lived on the junction of Bromford lane and Kingsbury Rd and he lived in Kingsbury Rd. This would have been around 1960 ish and it was around this time that he went blind. Unfortunately my parents are dead so I can't ask them. But I know we only had 3 Dr's, Topping, Brewster and Korsak, it was only when my parents moved to Castle Brom from Erdington that Dr Korsak told them he wouldn't be able to come out there cause it was too far!
 
Dr. Richard Pomeroy MBE

Dr Pomeroy was my doctor for 38 years and he retired in November.
Dr Dawson came to the practice when it moved from Greenlands road to Craig Croft ,he too has now left the practice.A friend went to see a doctor privately as part of an insurance claim and was surprised when he turned out to be her old doctor,Dr. Dawson.
For those who remember the surgery,my new doctor to replace Dr Pomeroy is Sophie Hopkins nee Allin,her father was a doctor with Pomeroy right from the beginning of the practice.
When the practice first started they were in Greenlands road in a three bedroomed house.
The dining room was the waiting room.
Dr Pomeroy had the lounge,Dr Allin had the large front bedroom,Dr John Bent had the back bedroom and Dr Jenny Bent his wife had the small bedroom.
Sadly John Bent was killed in a plane crash whilst still very young.Dr Jenny Bent has also retired.
They don't 'make' doctors like Dr Pomeroy any more,he delivered my youngest son in 1973,his language was a bit fruity but he was lovelyand always had time to listen.
 
I totally agree with everything you say about Dr. Pomeroy Alberta. I dont remember too much, but it remains in my memory that he was a very good Doctor. Barry.
 
By the way, Dr.Dawson never told me that he had left the practice as well. he only mentioned that Dr.Pomeroy had retired. Barry.
 
Alberta I totally agree Dr pomeroy was the best doctor, he did always have time to listen and made you feel totally at ease, and he didn't just write out prescipitions to get rid of you like most doctors today, if you didn't need any medication he would say you don't need anything it will go on it's own.
 
Dr. Gibson

Dr. Gibson was our doctor too. We lived in Park Lane. I remember, that I had lots of spots appearing on my legs. His advice was, take her to the sea-side! Good advice. They dissappeared.
 
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