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Amy K
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Genealogy: Chasing your own tale!
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Does anyone have any information about a sanitorium in Talgarth??
My mather stayed there for a few months in the 1950's and I'd like to find out a bit more about it.
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Andy_D
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Hi Amy....
The Sanitorium is about to be redeveloped atm....I know the buildings were still standing a while back when I last went there.....but its been empty for a long time now.....In fact I met the man who was redeveloping it about 6 months ago.  
http://www.cpat.org.uk/projects/longer/histland/midwye/1091.htm .
This tells you a bit about its history...........
There is also a facility 3 miles away at Bronllys which is still operational as a mental health unit although back in the old days it was a TB hospital.
If i can help any more let me know
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Names: Badman, Courtney, Davis, Fitton Greenslade, Haytor, Hyde, Martin, Turner, Williams, Yates.
Places: Ainsworth, Pilkington ( Lancs) Henstridge (Somerset )
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Amy K
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Thanks Andy! My mam will be very interested to hear that. She loathed the place...
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Andy_D
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I don't know if this will work... 
Heres a picture looking over Talgarth with the hospital just about in view. ( ironically this pic was takne from Bronllys Hospital Talgarth Hospital is just a bit higher than the church tower and just to the right of it.
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Names: Badman, Courtney, Davis, Fitton Greenslade, Haytor, Hyde, Martin, Turner, Williams, Yates.
Places: Ainsworth, Pilkington ( Lancs) Henstridge (Somerset )
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Andy_D
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Now Then, Now Then, Hold on a minute!!!
By a sheer coincidence ( is there any such thing? ) My wife brought me back a pile of maps today and in the pile was a 1938 linen o/s 1:25,000 of Talgarth and bronllys ( pronounced bron-klis ) .
........ The Hospital at Talgarth is signed as 'mental heath' whilst the hospital at Bronllys is signed as a 'Sanatorium'.
Its quite possible that it would have been reffered as Talgarth....the two communities are seperated by 100m's.
a little mention "Bronllys: Bethel Chapel, Calvanistic Methodist; Bronllys Hospital Chapel (Formerly S. Wales Sanitorium); St. Mary's Church" from here: http://archives.powys.gov.uk/lsn/20.html .
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Names: Badman, Courtney, Davis, Fitton Greenslade, Haytor, Hyde, Martin, Turner, Williams, Yates.
Places: Ainsworth, Pilkington ( Lancs) Henstridge (Somerset )
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oliviv
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There is an interesting article on the Sanatorium Hospital in our local paper with photograps.
Details below
Paper : Brecon and Radnor Express and County Times
Address : 11 The Bulwark, Brecon Powys LD3 7AE
Tel. No. 01874 610111 Neill Powell Circulation & Promotions Manager
Date of Issue : 19th. October 2006 Pages 12 & 13
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wrjones
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My Uncle Walter Jones was at the Sanitorium in the 1930's.My Father used to cycle all the way from North Wales to visit him.Times have changed!
Regards
William Russell Jones
Cefn Mawr
Wrexham.
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Jones,Griffiths.Stephens,Parry,Gabriel,Conway,Hughes,Evans,Roberts,Lea,Hanmer.Peake,Edwards.Newnes,Davies. All North Wales. Conway,Durber,Cartlidge,Lovatt,Bebington.Brindley,Sankey,Brunt.Dean.Clewes.Rhodes. All Stoke-on-Trent. Francis-Nantwich Cheshire. Dennell-Cheshire/Staffordshire. Census Information Is Crown Copyright,from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Talgarthian
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A website for the Mid Wales Hospital is being created at www.freewebs.com/midwaleshospital
If amyone would care to visit. Also if enough interest is shown I will look into a section on Bronllys South Wales San.
cheers
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pinot
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I know that within living memory being sent to Talgarth (not Bronllys), in the appropriate local context, meant being commited to the asylum.
Pinot
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S_Sheppard
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I was up there last week in search of my great Grandfathers resting place.
The MidWales hospital was an assylum which treated prisoner of war during WWII and were buried in the grounds, the hospital is no longer used and rundown it was privately bought and the entrance is now made up of offices allthough you can still access the main parts of the hospital by driving through the main entrance.
The Bronllys Hospital is the Sanitorium which as allready stated was for T.B. treatments, This is what my GG/Father (who was a service man (merchant navy)died of in 1941, the burials were in the nearby church, but during this period the grave were not maked (no headstone) records show just rows and numbers, so it can be worked out that the person that was buried would be within this 10 foot of space (soo to speak).
I will be visiting again if I can find his co-ordinates of his burial.
So anyone searching for a relative who was a serviceman can easily get the hospitals mixed up beacause service men were also at mid-wales but they were POW's
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