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Sanitorium Little Bromwich Hospital Yardley Green Road Yardley Road

Hi ...i worked at yardley green hospital .later called the chest branch of east bham hospital now heartlands. .it was mainly used for t.b. Patients...the little isolation huts were in the grounds...i left in 1968 to have my son ...we all had stringent tests and xrays and vaccinations for our protection....
 
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Anyone ever hear of a Yardley Rd. Sanitorium in Birmingham? I wonder if any employment records exist for 1918? Thanks

I'm also looking for the City Sanitorium in Yardley Green Road, Saltley (I think it was also called Mother & baby Home, Yardley Baby Sanitorium} as I am wondering if any records exist for 1936/37. Have you discovered where the records are?
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Hello there! I was a patient in G ward from oct 60 to aug 61, my doctor was also Dr Ross, he used to scare me to death but a brilliant doctor.I remember nurse Daniels,nurse Brown,nurse Sweeny,staff nurse Wright,Sister Monahan,Miss Parker and Miss Young were our teachers.Do you remember Pat Irving? she had TB on here spine and was on a special frame. Remember all those Strep injections with blunt needles! and the awful tasting PAS mint or ribena flavour!
Regards,Pat
 
I can remember, just before I started work after the Army going with Enid for an appt; at Yardley Green San as she called
it, she had TB some years before, it was her final visit they discharged her, saying she would grow out it which she did.
Anyone who
remembers the smog and air pollution, everyone with coal fires and the local factories belching out smoke and filth can
understand why we had so much chest troubles.The "Clean Air Act" did wonders for Brum. Bernard
 
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Hello there! I was a patient in G ward from oct 60 to aug 61, my doctor was also Dr Ross, he used to scare me to death but a brilliant doctor.I remember nurse Daniels,nurse Brown,nurse Sweeny,staff nurse Wright,Sister Monahan,Miss Parker and Miss Young were our teachers.Do you remember Pat Irving? she had TB on here spine and was on a special frame. Remember all those Strep injections with blunt needles! and the awful tasting PAS mint or ribena flavour!
Regards,Pat
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Hello Pat
Thank you for recalling some names and memories I'd forgotten. We must have missed each other by only a few months, I was there from Feb '62 until December '62. And again a few months later for another 3 months. The girl on the spinal plaster bed next to me was named Linda, she was about 12 years old.

Who could forget the medications, especially the egg-sized lumps that appeared after the Strep injections!

Do you remember Norman, the ward orderly/porter. And also the craft lady who brought in the supplies for baskets and other things. I'm blowed if I can remember her name. Do you remember her?

The only teacher I had was Miss Young, I think. Was she the one who wore glasses and bright red lipstick?

I wish I could say they were the good old days, but they weren't.

Thanks for the memories, Regards, Ivy
 
Bernard67Arnold said:
I can remember, just before I started work after the Army going with Enid for an appt; at Yardley Green San as she called
it, she had TB some years before, it was her final visit they discharged her, saying she would grow out it which she did.
Anyone who
remembers the smog and air pollution, everyone with coal fires and the local factories belching out smoke and filth can
understand why we had so much chest troubles.The "Clean Air Act" did wonders for Brum. Bernard
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Remember it well, in the 50s driving? home from Smethwick, My mother had to walk in front of the bloody car with a flash light. Also walking down moat lane in pea soup fog (SMOG) feeling the wall to find my way. Seems Dad started using coke? instead of coal? John Crump OldBrit
 
Hello Ivy

Thank's for replying so soon, I think it was Mrs Willan who you are thinking of who used to teach us basket making and how to make all the different soft toys. Do you know fifty years on, I still have some of the toys I made.

Miss Young was the teacher who wore bright red lipstick, I wonder what happened to Miss Parker?, as she was really good. We used to pretend to be asleep after rest hour to get out of school work, she used to come in and just sit there it was a shame. Sometimes we used to lock the teachers out as well!
I don't remember Norman, but I do remember Violet who was a ward orderly, she was lovely. I was on strict bed for some time and my bed was on drainage posture because I had a cavity on my right lung which wouldn't close.
Can you remember any names of patients who were in with you? I'm surprised Pat, the girl I mentioned before wasn't still in there with you, as she was quite poorly.
Did Dr Toal still do the ward rounds with Dr Ross?

Kind Regards

Pat
 
Hi Pat
This is a late reply to a question you asked on your last entry on the forum.
When I went into G ward (side ward) in Feburary 1962 there were only two other girls there. One went home the following day. I can't remember her name I was too sick at the time. I was put next to the other girl who was on a plaster bed, I know she had been quite ill. She was there for most of 1962 having to learn to walk again. It could be the same girl you referred to as Pat, the one I thought was named Linda. We weren't on our own for too long though. In no time the ward was full. There was also a girl who came on to the ward for a short while to finishing her schooling, her name was Janet. She could possibly have been there at the same time as you. With regard to Dr Toal, I'm sorry I don't remember him at all.
Kind Regards, Ivy
 
My mum, born in 1926, lost her father and one of her brothers to TB when she was 10 and afterwards mum and her older brother had to have a Heaf test (the one on the wrist) to see whether they had been exposed to tuberculosis. Mum was clear, but her brother had to go into Yardley Sanatorium and her mum was only allowed to visit on Sunday afternoons.

Mum says she used to dread Sundays because she would have to wait outside the Sanatorium for 2 hours by some big gates so the gatekeeper could keep his eye on her. I showed her the photo of the Hospital Lodge, Yardley Road, from the link above and she said that was the place she had to wait and she still remembers the gatekeeper looking down at her.

https://www.bhamb14.co.uk/index_files...AMHOSPITAL.htm
 
hi...i worked there in the 60s.the old cabins were still out in the grounds where they were quarantined ...very primitive ....my brother had t.b. when he was 17.he was sent to romsley to recover he was there for 3 months.....we were all tested and i was retested when i worked there .i remember i worked on the theatre for a short time ...bit of a difference now.lol......
 
My grandma has mentioned the mother and baby home, but this was Yardley towards Acocks Green near the cemetrey. She went there to have her first baby during the war. The baby caught an infection but sadly passed away. I may be wrong but I dont think they are the same as the Yardley Green Sanitotium.
 
Hi there to all who have contributed
I've just found an old photo taken around 1962 at Yardley Green Sanatorium with myself (right) and Noreena (left). If anyone recognises her I'd love to hear.
Regards, IvyIvy and Noreena.jpg
 
can anyone tell me where Little Bromage isolation hospital was.
I was a 6yr old patient in 1946 suffering diphtheria.
 
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Little Bromwich hospital is on Yardley Green Road, diagonally opposite the back of Eat Birmingham Hospital.
Later called Yardley Green Hospital, it has been used for Geriatric and Mental Health patients - it was part of the Mental Health Trust back in 1996-200 when I worked at Heartlands. Unsure if it still stands or has been redeveloped for housing. Think they built an Old Folks home on part of the site?
Not been down that way for some years now.
Brian
 
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I think Little Bronwich Hospital has gone completely now after serving many years as a sanatorium and isolation hospital, the thinking was this type of hospital was no longer required. I believe that on the site now there is a school and a secure mental health centre. Here are a couple of early photos of the Lodge House and the wards when it was a sanatorium.
 

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I wad in Little Bromwich when I was five years old in 1941 with whooping cough and double pneumonia and our ward was opposite to the Diptheria ward on the first floor. We were all wheeled out onto open - air balconies all day however cold it wad and we could wave to children in your ward. I wad in there for six weeks and parents were only allowed to visit once a week on the promise that we would not cry when we saw them with their masks and gowns on but of course we always did. It wad very scary to be without your Mom and Dad for such a long time.
 
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Sorry Pejoy - I forgot to address this reply to you - my apologies!!!
 
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Little Bromwich Fever Hospital was entered from Bordesley Green East, just below the Broadway Pub at the bottom of the hill when I was young in the late 20s-30s and 40s. My friends father lived in the house along side the gates. He was in charge of something in the hospital. We used to play snooker in the games room and was there when bombs were dropped in the grounds in the Blitz. The hospital on Yardley Green Road was the Sanatorium for T.B.
GEFF
 
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pejoy On the thread "Fever Hospitals in Birmingham 1930s" there are some interesting Posts on Little Bromwich Hospital.
 
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My mom was in "Little Bromwich Hospital", she had "Glandular Fever", and was very ill for some months.Paul
 
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I was in Little Bromwich Isolation hospital (originally City Hospital) for 2 months in 1951. It was in Yardley Green Rd. It wasn't the same building as the sanatorium.
 
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I've grown up and lived my life believing that the sanatorium on Yardley Green Rd was Little Bromwich Hospital. In the 70's & 80's we supplied skips for all the hospitals in Birmingham and even the buying department who ordered the skips referred to the Yardley Green Rd site as Little Bromwich when ordering an exchange of skips. Though looking on the early maps I can see we were all wrong and it was indeed what we knew as East Bimingham Hospital that was indeed Little Bromwich Hosptal.
 

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Thanks for posting the map Phil. I've not seen that one.city hospital isolation little bromwich.jpg
Here's a photo of the Isolation Hospital.
 
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I to was in Little Bromwich Hospital way back in 1940 when I was 13yrs old. I had Diptherea and was ready to pass out of this world. I remember there used to be air raids at night when the German bombers came over and the nurses had to rush around the ward covering each patient with a thick red blanket incase a window got blown out and all the glass came down on your bed. The nurses used to slide under the nearest bed and stay there until the allclear sirens sounded. It wasn't a very pleasant period in my life, but I survived it and I'm now 87yrs old.
Have a nice day you all
 
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yes I remember those bright red blankets and you were also wrapped in them in the ambulance bringing you to the hospital. Do you remember your clothes and toys being taken off you when you arrived and they were destroyed because of the infections. When you started getting better and were able to get out of bed clothes and toys were provided for you on the ward. I remember there were quite a few Nuns who were nursing on the ward. I think the whooping cough ward was Ward 21.
 
My second great grandfather George Mcllvine / mcilveen died in 1916 in the Sanatorium yardley road
 
My son caught measles whilst in Good Hope hospital being treated for febrile convulsions. They sent him to Heartlands (would it have been called that in 1980?) as they still had the facilities to isolate infectious patients and Good Hope didn't.
 
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