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Maternity Hospitals in Hitchin around 1933
« on: Monday 21 November 05 20:28 GMT (UK) »

can anyone help
I am trying to trace where a family member was born all I know is birth cert says hitchin

Do you know or any maternity hospitals in Hitchin around 1933

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Re: maternity hospitals in Hitchin around 1933
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 22 November 05 02:23 GMT (UK) »

I think that the Lister Hospital used to be in Hitchin just off Nightingale Rd and that there was also a Maternity Hospital somewhere else - Upper Brand St? Neither exist now, at least not in Hitchin. The Lister is what the big Stevenage Hospital is called nowadays.

I've just found www.hitchin.net. Perhaps you could post there.

Vague I know, but maybe it will help a little.

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Re: maternity hospitals in Hitchin around 1933
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 22 November 05 12:20 GMT (UK) »


can anyone help
I am trying to trace where a family member was born all I know is birth cert says hitchin

Do you know or any maternity hospitals in Hitchin around 1933


Hi jaxishere

Please bear in mind that it was very common for babies to be born at home and not in hospital right up to the 1960's.

If no address at all is given on the birth certificate, I wonder if perhaps the birthplace was very rural, as you would at least expect the name of an institution or road.

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Re: maternity hospitals in Hitchin around 1933
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 22 November 05 14:47 GMT (UK) »

The maternity unit only transfered from Hitchin to Lister in Stevenage about 15 years ago. I work at Lister. The old Lister in Hitchin is now care of the elderly.
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Re: maternity hospitals in Hitchin around 1933
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 29 July 07 14:29 BST (UK) »

As well as the old Lister Hospital there was the Herts & Beds Hospital and Benslow Nursing Home.
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Re: maternity hospitals in Hitchin around 1933
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 29 July 07 18:11 BST (UK) »

Don't forget private maternity homes.  There was a Benslow House in Hitchin operating in the 30s & probably others  besides
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Re: Maternity Hospitals in Hitchin around 1933
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 25 September 07 18:29 BST (UK) »

My mother was born at the Maples Maternity Hospital, Bedford Road, Hitchin in 1933
It was pulled down a few years ago and although had not been used as maternity home for many years it was still used by NHS (as administration offices I think). The Maples stopped being used when the North Herts Maternity Hospital was opened next door. I think this was used until 1980 when it was transferred to Stevenage
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Re: Maternity Hospitals in Hitchin around 1933
« Reply #7 on: Sunday 27 April 08 23:29 BST (UK) »

Hi,

You probably don't need any more on this but if memory serves me correctly Foxholes just at the edge of the town on the road to Pirton was a maternity home.

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Re: Maternity Hospitals in Hitchin around 1933
« Reply #8 on: Sunday 27 April 08 23:40 BST (UK) »

Prior to the founding of the National Health Service a lot of the first babies of parents who could afford it were born in small local nursing/maternity homes.

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Re: Maternity Hospitals in Hitchin around 1933
« Reply #9 on: Monday 14 July 08 19:51 BST (UK) »

My mother was born at the Maples Maternity Hospital, Bedford Road, Hitchin in 1933
It was pulled down a few years ago and although had not been used as maternity home for many years it was still used by NHS (as administration offices I think). The Maples stopped being used when the North Herts Maternity Hospital was opened next door. I think this was used until 1980 when it was transferred to Stevenage

The Maternity Unit at the Lister Hospital Stevenage didn't open until 1983.  My oldest son was born in the old unit in 1982, which is where Waitrose (and before that Safeway) now stands.
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