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Loveday Street and Loveday Street Maternity Hospital

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Wendy - You can't imagine how much these photos of Loveday Street Hospital mean to me 70 years after I was born there. THANK YOU! from Pennsylvania
 
Wow the place where I was born - they have a lot to answer for.

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rickiwebb said:
Wish I could take a walk down Loveday Street where I was born. I'm really sorry that it's on the other side of the ocean. Does it still look like this??
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I am sure it doesn't but you could check it our on Google Street Live.
 
Did any member save the photo's at the beginning of this thread if so it would be nice to re load them. Sadly I lost them when my old computer died and I didn't back them up...lesson learned.
 
No sorry -but a little tip - when my PC failed last time I took the old drive out and extracted the files from it when the new one was in the PC and set up.
 
Yes my son did that but I had so many photo's some were lost. I know there was a lot of interest in these photo's so I am sure someone must have saved them.
 
Re post #73 Wendy, can you look up your records of attachments to see what the file name was; if you are not sure how to do that send me a message
 
As requested here are some of the missing photos of loveday st














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A close up of above

regards stars
 
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My Grandmother had her only child delivered by caesarian (10 1/2lb), at Loveday St in 1940. She died shortly afterwards.
 
Oh Maggie I am so sorry to hear that. I had both my children by ceasarian section and I often thought of the women who died before they perfected this operation.
 
It was wartime, and I think there were complications due to existing medical conditions. I would like to find out more about her medical history and thanks to this site I believe the records are held for this hospital at National Archives although wouldnt have a clue how to access them. Any ideas
 
hello maggie..i too would like to access records of this hospital for a still born birth in 1935...i cant be sure but i think someone did say that the records no longer exist but if anyone knows if they do i would also be grateful of any informtion on them...

lyn
 
just found another pic the maternity hospital..no date to this one....stars if you look at your pic on post 77 and compere with this one the building on the corner used to be the dog and partridge pub

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Thank you for putting the photos of Loveday Street Maternity Hospital on the site, I was born there in 1951 and have always wondered what it looked like.
 
Wendy said:
Oh Maggie I am so sorry to hear that. I had both my children by ceasarian section and I often thought of the women who died before they perfected this operation.
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I understand this operation was named
after Julius Caesar, he was born in 100BC, so there has been plenty of time to
perfect it. Bernard
 
hi nick
the rowton house is now a big hotel and it does very well for functions of wedding and meeting ;
itsbest wishes astonian very rare if you se a rough sleeper around there now but you would not want to walk around there on your own late at night beleive me , best wishes astonian
 
Just found this on the site Britain from above
Hope this link works......
<a href="https://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/EPW005848"><img src="https://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/sites/default/files/imagecache/small-thumbnail/sites/all/lib/aerofilms-images/public/england/EPW005848.jpg" alt="St Mary's Church, the General Hospital and Electric Supply Station, Birmingham, 1921 - Britain from Above" title="St Mary's Church, the General Hospital and Electric Supply Station, Birmingham, 1921 - Britain from Above" width="100" height="88" class="imagecache imagecache-small-thumbnail"/></a>
 
All missing attachments to this thread have now been replaced, if any original poster is not happy with the replacement please by all means feel free to replace it again.
 
That is a
Mayfield said:
I was born in Loveday Street.

When I was born, they thought that I did not have long to live so the last rights were read to me. My dear heavily pregnant mother, for some reason was convinced that she was having a girl and as result did not have a boys name prepared?

So according to my mother I was Christened in hospital and named after the person who delivered me - their name was Dr O'Keef, so I was called Keith?

As you can see, I survived... Wasted journey for the priest? However, I spent the first month or two of my life in what was referred to as an 'Iron Lung'.

Is there anyway of checking the staff names at the hospital in April 1952?

Mayfield (keith)
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That is a nice story Keith. had a chuckle about the wasted journey by the priest haha.
I was also born there in 1950 , My mum wasn't discharged for 6 weeks as she was very very sick after she had me, she said i was one very spoilt baby when we left hospital as the nurses kept picking me up as they only ever handled young babies and I had started to smile and notice things by the time we left.
There was a sad note for my mum however, she had made a friend there, when my mum was discharged , her friend wasn't being discharged for another day so my mum asked if she could stay another night and they could leave together the next day. Unfortunately that night mums friend suddenly died from a thrombosis, I guess it didnt help them being lay in bed so long those days, they get young mums up quickly nowadays.
 
Have a look at this excellent map of Loveday Street from the 1890's side-by-side a modern map.
Looking at Loveday street closely, the only hospital on it is the 'General Hospital' with the same location and even the same buildings as the current day Birmingham Children's Hospital.
Was St Mary's a different hospital, or is it actually still there just with a different name?
Loveday Street Map
 
The NLS site does not seem to have an equivalent map of the area from a later date. The maternity hospital was not there in the 1890s. It can be seen
on the c1917 map or, better still on the c1955 map below.

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mikejee said:
The NLS site does not seem to have an equivalent map of the area from a later date. The maternity hospital was not there in the 1890s. It can be seen
on the c1917 map or, better still on the c1955 map below.

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Mikejee, Thanks for this - it was driving me a bit crazy trying to work out where it was!
Where did you find the 1955 map? Is it available online?
On the NLS site, another map does seem to show it: 1949-1969, now well buried below St Chad's
 
I was born at Loveday Street Hospital 1956, weighing 5 lb 5 oz. its great to see pics of where I was born. My mother gave me the middle name of Veronica after one of the nurses on the ward,
 
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