.... 23 Posted July 13, 2012 Report Share Posted July 13, 2012 Bubblewrap - I think that might be a school for children with special needs now possibly? Compo - I'd be interested to know where that was. Can't really think of any sizeable buildings near Dorket Head? Rampton is a high security psychiatric hospital for people detained under the Mental Health Act. You don't have to be a criminal to be admitted there, or 'insane'. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted July 13, 2012 Report Share Posted July 13, 2012 That was Digby (Arnold & Carlton C of FE) college wasn't it <g> No that was a bit further down the avenue & the college was behind the school playing fields (Bubblewrap went to those two schools 1954-1960) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dgbrit 258 Posted July 13, 2012 Report Share Posted July 13, 2012 No i cant go to work " I've got a bone in my leg" 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,473 Posted July 13, 2012 Report Share Posted July 13, 2012 If we're mentioning out-of-town hospitals, there was also Harlow Wood http://www.pictureth...002838&prevUrl= Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted July 13, 2012 Report Share Posted July 13, 2012 For a hospital, Harlow Wood was a very pleasant place! Anyone remember Newstead Sanatorium? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fynger 841 Posted July 13, 2012 Report Share Posted July 13, 2012 i have a backward step brother....he went to Hopewell Hall - special school. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,473 Posted July 13, 2012 Report Share Posted July 13, 2012 Anyone remember Newstead Sanatorium? I remember that because my mum was there some time around the late 50s/early 60s. Specifically for TB I believe. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
denshaw 2,872 Posted July 13, 2012 Report Share Posted July 13, 2012 There used to be a special school called Ramsdale, between Dorket head and Georges Hill. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paulus 541 Posted July 13, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 13, 2012 What was the small hospital, entrance just up the road from the main entrance to City Hospital (Hucknall Road), it was set back from the main road. I had cause to work there (Boilerhouse) in the cellar circa 1980, & came across discarded records & 'ward record books' which recorded the 1940's/50's records of children admiited with polio, diptheria, TB, scarlet fever etc..............some of those poor mites didn't recover, & many were left permanently crippled from these ailments. I had 2 young daughters at the time & it made me realise how lucky we are to have the NHS & modern medicines to protect us Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted July 13, 2012 Report Share Posted July 13, 2012 Is that the big house that stands over Ramsdale golf course, Den? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted July 13, 2012 Report Share Posted July 13, 2012 I remember that because my mum was there some time around the late 50s/early 60s. Specifically for TB I believe. Another coincidence we share, K. So was my mum, in the 1950s. Spent 18 months there with TB. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
denshaw 2,872 Posted July 13, 2012 Report Share Posted July 13, 2012 Is that the big house that stands over Ramsdale golf course, Den? It's been demolished now, used to have a green dome and could be seen from A614. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted July 13, 2012 Report Share Posted July 13, 2012 Remember it well. Didn't even realise it was no longer there any more and I pass by Ramsdale fairly often! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted July 13, 2012 Report Share Posted July 13, 2012 Paulus, your reply #34 was where my brother went when he was about 13 with scarlet fever. I remember visiting him and looking through glass at him, and everything we took for him, jigsaws etc, had to stay there when he came home. There was also the St Francis hospital in the City Hospital it was for the elderly, my grandma went in there. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StephenFord 866 Posted July 13, 2012 Report Share Posted July 13, 2012 Regarding post #34, sounds like the isolation hospital. The city hospital also incorporated Bagthorpe workhouse, renamed Valebrook Lodge in 1937 (-> City Hospital South -> Sherwood Hospital). I gather it was a place dreaded in later years by those who knew its sombre past ("They've sent 'im ter Baggy..."). Then there was the children's hospital off Mansfield Road, to which my cousin was admitted with pneumonia at age 6 in 1950. I gather from my mum that the visiting restrictions were draconian - no visiting at all for the first two weeks (it "unsettled" the child), and then one two-hour visit on Sunday afternoons only. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted July 13, 2012 Report Share Posted July 13, 2012 Thankfully times changed Stephen, my son was in the Children's for 3 weeks when he was 2 and we could visit all day long. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted July 13, 2012 Report Share Posted July 13, 2012 That was Digby (Arnold & Carlton C of FE) college wasn't it <g> Are you insinuating we NCB apprentices were a bit looney.......LOL Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StephenFord 866 Posted July 13, 2012 Report Share Posted July 13, 2012 Thankfully times changed Stephen, my son was in the Children's for 3 weeks when he was 2 and we could visit all day long. Absolutely. Our daughter had to have a fairly tricky operation at 3 months old (1989), and was in QMC. We were living in Lincolnshire at the time, but although we could have stayed with my wife's parents in Nottingham, QMC found us a room to stay so that we on hand all the time - and even though we were not the patients we were treated with the utmost consideration and support. The NHS gets a lot of abuse, but when the chips are down they are nothing short of brilliant in my experience. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted July 13, 2012 Report Share Posted July 13, 2012 There was also the Firs Hospital on Mansfield Road Sherwood. What was their specialty? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,473 Posted July 13, 2012 Report Share Posted July 13, 2012 Firs was a maternity hospital. At least it was when I was born there. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted July 13, 2012 Report Share Posted July 13, 2012 Ramsdale is the one Denshaw - cheers. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted July 13, 2012 Report Share Posted July 13, 2012 Are you insinuating we NCB apprentices were a bit looney.......LOL I certainly was! Must have been insane, working dahn pit any rode. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Gibbo 04 188 Posted July 13, 2012 Report Share Posted July 13, 2012 The building near Dorket Head is an psychiatric hospital called Calverton Hill, I work there. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted July 13, 2012 Report Share Posted July 13, 2012 Peel St hospital delivered babies too, but I think it might have been a just a women's hospital for other female 'stuff'. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted July 13, 2012 Report Share Posted July 13, 2012 The building near Dorket Head is an psychiatric hospital called Calverton Hill, I work there. Is that on George's Lane, Gibbo, going from Dorket Head towards Calvo on the left? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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