OLD WEST BROMWICH PHOTOS

does anyone know what heath lane hospital was used to treat in the mid 1980's?thanks:)

From what I gather and I don't know how true it was but there was talk about it treating sex offenders on the hush hush

A bit of a change to the chest and TB clinic it used to be !

Michael at 03:56PM on Apr 05, 2010

From what I gather and I don't know how true it was but there was talk about it treating sex offenders on the hush hush

 

A bit of a change to the chest and TB clinic it used to be !

:)i thought it was like a cancer hospice?

I think you will find that Michael has got it in one Alice !

It used to be a chest clinic years ago, and by all accounts it wasn't a very nice place to end up, especially if you got the dreaded TB and there was a piece in the Black Country Bugle about it being used during the TB outbreaks

I will see if I can find the piece

As for what Michael said about offenders, it was common local knowledge that it was used for offenders and they tried to keep it quiet

just after the war T B  was fairly rampant in the area,but,later it was virtually eliminated..However it flared up again with the advent of asian immigrants.

bill phillips at 09:10PM on Apr 08, 2010

just after the war T B  was fairly rampant in the area,but,later it was virtually eliminated..However it flared up again with the advent of asian immigrants.

It was used for any and all Chest problems. Me mom worked there for several years and although it was originally just TB and Diptheria  it later had anything from TB to Lung Cancer. 

They were very good at what they could do for the patients the Consultant was a Mr Cole? who was revered by many of the staff.

They used to get the patients helping with the gardens etc and ran quite a holistic approach.

There was a unit at the bottom of the Hospital grounds (not part of the hospital itself) that was apparently a lock up centre for offenders of some description but it was not made clear what!! It was called by someone's name.

thanks for your help my dad was there in 84 died of lung cancer,just wondering if it was a hospice as my memories arnt very clear as i was 6 at the time and no family to ask

what was the little building with the circle window near the road on heath lane hospital?:)

There was a couple of public toilets just inside the gates in a nice little building the larger building was the Matron's office i believe.

My Grandad was there in the very early 60's, I never went as it wasn't 'suitable' for children to visit, he did eventually come home. A friends Mom however was there for a while:TB as my childs memories dictate but was then moved to Himley Hall, they must have done something right as that lady is still alive.

I heard a rumour today that there is a new unit  being built at Heath Lane.  I also recollect  memories  of people in the old unit one of which was a double amputee who  went there to recover.

                                                                                                          J.E.M.

mr cole rings a bell

my sister,Rose Plaza,worked there for a number of years,i think Mr Cole was a highly regarded TB specialist

bill phillips at May 4, 2010 at 9:16 PM

my sister,Rose Plaza,worked there for a number of years,i think Mr Cole was a highly regarded TB specialist

We remember Aunty Rose very well, I'm Connie's daughter!