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Grosvenor Road Maternity Home, Handsworth
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lucy lockett
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We moved to 17, Grosvenor Rd in 1950. The maternity home was on the same side of the road a couple of hundred yards down. A white building built in Victorian times, vague impression of a couple of trees in front, looking a bit in need of paint after the war ,I think it had a flat roof, and might have been about the size of two pairs of semi-detached houses, but I did not take a lot of notice, aged 11! Later demolished and redeveloped.( The Record Office might have something of it's history?) At that time it was reckoned to need 8 nurses to staff a ward , but these might not all have been qualified nurse/ midwives, particularly if it was a privately run home, or a home for unmarried mothers. Disposable needles were yet to be made, so a lot of equipment was still boiled up to sterilise. Judging from experience in 1960 in Moseley, may not have had a lift, newly delivered mothers may have had to be carried up stairs on a canvas trolley cover. Mothers kept in for about a week, unmarried mothers longer to establish feeding, post-natal care etc
paulboyle290
Brummie babby
Has anyone ever come across a picture of Maternity hospital Heathfield road ? >
Yes I heard that too, a lady who works for h/worth history society was born there, my family lived there from1959-1972 when it was demolished.
Yes my family lived there 1959-1972, it did have trees in the front and an orchard at the back, lovely place to grow up in-fond memories.
I used to live in that house, and that is was a hospital at one time, one of the historians at Slack house was born there, thats all I know.
Green Girl
proper brummie kid
Sorry, bit late getting to this. I was born in The Grosvenor, Handsworth in 1947 when it was a private nursing home. I was hoping to find a photograph but there don't appear to be any. At least I now have some idea of what the building looked like, so thanks.
