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Sanitorium Little Bromwich Hospital Yardley Green Road Yardley Road
Lady Penelope
master brummie
Hi Janice, nice to meet you yesterday and yes, thank you, that sounds right.
pjmburns
master brummie
Nice to meet you too and put a face to a name.
Hi bryan
The mental health trust still excist its across the road facing the hospital
they have turned the old hearing centre and the mental health centre into one large mental health security unit
for serious ill patients for long term sentence by the courts for indefinate periods
its a masive complex going back right through to hob moor road they have built these little bunolows for patients to support them selves
still within the complex grounds at the rear side the complex is surrounded by huge steel and electronic gates
all around the complex escape proof . i think its called the triangle or some think sounds like it
along the road there is some old peoples house been built as well
best wishes Astonian,,,,,
The mental health trust still excist its across the road facing the hospital
they have turned the old hearing centre and the mental health centre into one large mental health security unit
for serious ill patients for long term sentence by the courts for indefinate periods
its a masive complex going back right through to hob moor road they have built these little bunolows for patients to support them selves
still within the complex grounds at the rear side the complex is surrounded by huge steel and electronic gates
all around the complex escape proof . i think its called the triangle or some think sounds like it
along the road there is some old peoples house been built as well
best wishes Astonian,,,,,
Lumpammer
master brummie
Does anyone know when this Yardley Road became YARDLEY GREEN ROAD ?
Lumpammer
master brummie
Thanks for that. The only Yardley Road I have ever known runs from the Swan Island to Acocks Green station.
Anthony N Dowling
New Member
I to was in Little Bromwich Hospital in 1949 aged 3 growing up nobody spoke about my illness it was all hush hush I had a lumbar puncture while there.My Doctor in 2014 told me that I had Meningitis I realise now that I am lucky to be alive so a big THANK YOU to the NHS.
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Williamstreeter
master brummie
Anthony I too had meningitis I was in LBH in 1957 , my mother was frightened to death . Reason is a female cousin of mine in the ROI died with it about 8yrs earlier , I had a couple of lumbar punctures while there came out and had another couple of weeks off school to recuperate . The strange thing about it was when our GP was called out after I took bad , he said it was a bad cold/flu when he was called again his locum came and got me into LBH straight away
sospiri
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
So that's what it looked like from the outside. I was in there for seven weeks with diptheria in either 1942 or 43. I can remember that the beds seemed very high off the floor. The kid in the next bed to me had a box of quality coloured pencils that my parents could never afford and one day he dropped one on the floor. No staff were about and I egged him on to get out of bed and retrieve it, something that we were forbidden to do. With no one in sight, I called him a wimp (or whatever was the favourite equivalent word at that time), and got out of bed to get it myself. Out of nowhere I felt the hand of a nurse on my shoulder and seconds later another showed up, loudly shouting at me for getting out of bed. The upshot of this was that minutes later I was put back to bed in a straitjacket for the remainder of my stay.
I also remember the nightly supper routine, each getting a coarse earthenware basin containing either bread & milk (sop) or oxtail soup. We were each previously asked which we would like for supper each night and I had always chosen sop. This particular night the oxtail soup smelled really good, so I opted to have that, and it really was good. But that night, it really worked wonders for my gastric system and gave me diarrhoea and I messed the bed! Early that morning all Hell let lose, and the bed had to be stripped and me given a thorough washing. It was sop for supper every night from then on, though it tasted very bland after that oxtail soup.
I can't remember a visit from my parents at all during my stay, and 75 years on, I can't recollect any other details of my stay. But some months later, scarlet fever was doing the rounds, and my mother told me that if I caught it, it would most likely mean another spell in Little Bromwich. Thank goodness that never materialised.
Maurice
I also remember the nightly supper routine, each getting a coarse earthenware basin containing either bread & milk (sop) or oxtail soup. We were each previously asked which we would like for supper each night and I had always chosen sop. This particular night the oxtail soup smelled really good, so I opted to have that, and it really was good. But that night, it really worked wonders for my gastric system and gave me diarrhoea and I messed the bed! Early that morning all Hell let lose, and the bed had to be stripped and me given a thorough washing. It was sop for supper every night from then on, though it tasted very bland after that oxtail soup.
I can't remember a visit from my parents at all during my stay, and 75 years on, I can't recollect any other details of my stay. But some months later, scarlet fever was doing the rounds, and my mother told me that if I caught it, it would most likely mean another spell in Little Bromwich. Thank goodness that never materialised.
Maurice
Cherryontop
New Member
Hi everyone, i've just received my great-grandfather's death certificate and he died in 153 Yardley Green Road which thanks to this forum i've learnt was a TB hospital which is what he died of sadly in August 1946. Bit of a long shot but were there any patients there at that time on this forum who possibly knew or remembered him?! Alfred George Mewis, he would have been 63 at the time. Thanks in advance.
I had my tonsils out in Litle Bromwich Hospital in 1958. I lived near to Selly Oak Hospital so I don’t know why I was sent there.
Lady Penelope
master brummie
Little Bromwich hospital is now Heartlands hospital, in Bordesley Green. Built originally as an infectious diseases hospital. My son was in Good Hope in the 1980's and caught measles. He had to be taken to Heartlands and put in isolation. Another relative may have been in the hospital at the same time as you - he caught diptheria after going to Devon for his holidays and playing near the sewage outfall pipe which emptied onto the beach (I'm sure it doesn't now).
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mw0njm.
A Brummie Dude
History
The hospital has its origins in an infectious diseases hospital known as City Hospital, Little Bromwich which was completed in June 1895. Intended for activation only at times of medical emergency, it was tasked with responding to a typhoid fever outbreak in 1901. Three additional pavilions and a nurses' home were added in 1904. It treated patients with scarlet fever, measles, diphtheria and tuberculosis during the First World War.
After joining the National Health Service as Little Bromwich Hospital in 1948, it became a general hospital in 1953. It was renamed East Birmingham Hospital in 1963 and saw considerable expansion in the 1970s.The world's last smallpox patient, Janet Parker, was treated at the hospital during the smallpox outbreak in 1978. It became Heartlands Hospital in 1993.
The hospital has its origins in an infectious diseases hospital known as City Hospital, Little Bromwich which was completed in June 1895. Intended for activation only at times of medical emergency, it was tasked with responding to a typhoid fever outbreak in 1901. Three additional pavilions and a nurses' home were added in 1904. It treated patients with scarlet fever, measles, diphtheria and tuberculosis during the First World War.
After joining the National Health Service as Little Bromwich Hospital in 1948, it became a general hospital in 1953. It was renamed East Birmingham Hospital in 1963 and saw considerable expansion in the 1970s.The world's last smallpox patient, Janet Parker, was treated at the hospital during the smallpox outbreak in 1978. It became Heartlands Hospital in 1993.
Hi pat I have been researching a little about little Bromwich hospital. Came across the site . I actually trained at east Birmingham hospital in 1975 to 1978 was searching for old pictures of the original little Bromwich hospital. My uncle was a patient their before I was born . Polio . He survived .
I worked here from 1976,
I worked at the hospital from May 1976, until May 2012. When I started it was on two sites, Yardley green site had the chest wards, with theatres and the morgue was here too. They had not long built Arden House, which specialised in elderly care. It had 12 wards, occupational therapy team, a kitchen, and treatment areas. We had a reastaurant and a social club too. The laundry was also on site, and served the hospital, as did the medical supplies sterilised on site and shipped out in big tubs. You had to check the special tape, it changed colour if sterilised correctly, and also had to check if in date and not damaged. We put all used gowns and instruments to one side to be collected The grounds were lovely, with flowers, grass lawns and trees, and we would take patients out and wheel them round the grounds in summer. The summer fetes were held in the grounds too. Special bed making teams worked on both sites, general and infectious diseases, surgical units, and paediatrics were on the main site off bordsley green road. I remember walking up and down Yardley fields road in uniform with cape going from one site to another....
Williamstreeter
master brummie
Lyn my Mother RIP would have said I was very lucky indeed
Rachel Morgan
knowlegable brummie
My great grandfather John Robinson died there of TB in 1938
I was thinking about the TB hospital earlier to day. I had found the information that a relative had died of TB in 1943 aged 48 and that his death was recorded at Selly Oak hospital. I wondered why he wasn't in the isolation hospital at Yardley/Little Bromwich as his home was just off Hobmoor Rd. But it was wartime and maybe the hospital was being used in a different way. I can remember travelling upstairs on the bus along Hobmore Rd and seeing patients with beds pushed out for fresh air.