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Post by edward on Jan 25, 2011 21:03:35 GMT
Can anyone help me with some information concerning my grandmother Minnie Lambley -Brain. She lived in 56 lowfield road ,tetbury. My fathers name is Ted Brain , her eldest son, who moved away to wales just after the war, married and settled down there.
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Post by geraldine arnold on Jan 26, 2011 15:54:02 GMT
I wonder if you are a local person I was born in Tetbury childrens hospital and then adopted I wonder if this hospital is still there as I would like to see it when i visit this summer  |
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Post by merlin on Feb 7, 2011 22:04:44 GMT
By Children's hospital I can only assume you mean the Maternity hospital which was at the top of Gumstool Hill, It was closed some years ago and has since been converted to a Nursing Home.
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Post by cliff on Feb 18, 2011 12:36:25 GMT
Brain/Lambley enquirer,
Like your good self I was born at the top of Gumstool Hill. I guess you do not have as many years on the Planet as myself. I was always told that I was born in the " Workhouse " I have no knowledge of when the building was set up as a Maternity Hospital. An early memory from late 1930's schooldays is of children having their tonsils removed there by a local Doctor, and not at the Cottage Hospital.
Hope I have been a help.
Cliff. B. Ex.Pat. Tetburian.
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Post by Andy on Feb 18, 2011 20:04:07 GMT
Kingsley House was the workhouse, built in 1793 by George Hopkins and was largely rebuilt in 1906 largely by architect V.A. Lawson.
In its time it has been a hospital for Australian and New Zealand forces an old people’s home a maternity hospital and a training ground for sniffer dogs.
In the 1940s, the workhouse was used as the Cotswold Maternity Home and had sixteen lying-in beds. I think it closed in 1944. The building is now Kingsley house and now a care home for the elderly.
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Post by geraldine arnold on Mar 16, 2011 15:07:50 GMT
Kingsley House was the workhouse, built in 1793 by George Hopkins and was largely rebuilt in 1906 largely by architect V.A. Lawson. In its time it has been a hospital for Australian and New Zealand forces an old people’s home a maternity hospital and a training ground for sniffer dogs. In the 1940s, the workhouse was used as the Cotswold Maternity Home and had sixteen lying-in beds. I think it closed in 1944. The building is now Kingsley house and now a care home for the elderly. |
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