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Maternity Hospital Heathfield Road

hi little one and welcome...we would love to see a photo please as quite a few of our members was born at this hospital

thank you

lyn
 
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Vronicka said:
I originally posted this on here, the girl is someone I conversed with in my search for my friends brother Clive Martin Carter or now Stanley with a different Christian name maybe. Born at this hospital on 1/5/1962 to Beryl Carter née Aucott.
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I know for sure that picture of the young girl outside that white house is NOT the so called heathfield road hospital...
I stood outside the house that was on heathfield rd where my sister in law had her baby in 1966.. it was just a ordinary house at the front ..the same as the house next door .. it had a small gate with the house next door and you walked in the gate and took about six steps to the front door.. where they would not let me in only the husband (my brother) so I went to the Stork public house and had a pop and waited with a few other people who could not get in to the house....so what I'm saying is it was just a ordinary house just like the one down the road from in in Trinity rd.. (and maybe the house next door was part of it.. but still a separate house. (and definitely not a hospital) there was a bus stop right beside it and a couple of houses away was the corner shop..
So people stop looking for a Hospital ..it was a house..but because it delivered babies I believe that's why people assume it was a hospital.. (like dudley rd)

Okay people I have at one time posted a very old picture of the house with the bus stop outside and the corner shop also in view... bye to you all and stay safe.
 
hi and yes we are all aware that heathfield maternity hospital was not a purpose built hospital like dudley road hospital...it was as you say a large house/or maybe 2 converted into a maternity hospital much the same as the sorento maternity hospital was..i think the photo you are referring to must be at least part of the hospital because we have members who remember it looking like that and the girl in the photo standing outside the door of the hospital lived just over the road from it..

as you may have read a new member has just joined us and said they have a photograph of the hospital so hopefully he/she will log back on and share it with us....would be good to see it so fingers crossed :)

lyn
 
Before it became Heathfield Maternity Hospital it was "Hope Lodge" at 134 Heathfield Road. This was a Magdalen Home. Maybe there's a photo of the building when it was Hope Lodge (or listed as a Magdalen Home ?) The site of the building is now a school.

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Hello I'm very late to this
I and my wife were both born at Handsworth Road in 1947.
But I'm looking for the maternity hospital in Trinity Road where Chris my brother was born, recently Deceased.
From what I remember we called it the Born House anyone got any thoughts on this?
Bob Moseley.
 
kenh said:
heathfield maternity hospital

during the last war several large houses around the city bacame maternity hospitals probably to relieve pressure on general hospitals or an increase in birth rate. heathfield in Heathfield rd Handsworth, Bourne House in Trinity Rd ,Lordswood in Lordswood Rd Harborne and Sorrento in Wake Green rd MoseleyIt may also have enabled women to deliver in more safe conditions during air raids
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Just found this post.
my brother was born in Bournehouse Trinity Rd. I wondered whether it was a real name or something the family made up that'll help me with my eulogy as he died recently.
Regards Bob Moseley.
 
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