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clipper
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Hello all,
Thanks for the info, Ray and Netti.
I think the St Cuthbert's photo is the style of building I remember.
Although the building is quite large, I always thought the home to be bigger than the house in the photo.
That's probably due to everything seeming to be on a bigger scale as a child.
Any idea when the picture was taken, Netti?
I don't really remember the front of the building as I'm sure the front would have been 'out of bounds' to the children, but the style feels right.
The colour photos of Summerfield, that you provided, Ray don't seem to ring any bells- the pitched roof and the closeness of neighbouring houses don't seem quite right.
I might be mistaken about seeing an actual Midland Red bus stop and I may only have seen my dad walking along the road after getting off the bus, but I'm sure I could see the buses at the bottom of a hill.
Many thanks for providing the pictures.
Regards,
clipper
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stiggy
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my mother stayed in a convalescent home in malvern to get over scarlet fever i think see was about 12 so that would be aprox 1960
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jacqui1961
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Hi i also stayed at a convalescent home in Malvern, the date would have been about 1965 for me... my memories are that it was a big fronted house, indoors was spacious, they had a huge dining table at the far end where we found our underwear every morning after it had bee laundered, The babies were upstairs and downstairs there was two big rooms, I went to school up the lane, we were ferried via an old ambulance but could walk if it was a nice day.. in onebathroom there was a bath that was very high up and another that was normal height. There was a big common at the back somewhere with a huge slide in it .
We all had to strip off on a sunday and there was a scales that was a big seat that we young ones sat on.. The house had very high wall around and lots of trees and shrubs, there was a very distinctive outdoor smell, and the wall was full of snails.. lol! My mom and dad used to come on a Sunday to see me.. Ihated it there and have some horrid memories of that place.. I remember one lads name Dirk he was fair haired and a cheeky monkey always up to mischief..ah ah 
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Wildlady
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Hi
Yes this photo of the building was ex -summerfield school for the deaf before closed down and changed into flats. It worcester Road, Malvern.
My good friends used to go to this school years ago.
Wildlady
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kingpettey
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Hi,
Noting my first post can you confirm if the photo's I later took was a home for sick children in circa 1952, before it was deaf school? The name 'Summerfield' is known in B'ham health care services.
Ray
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Wildlady
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Hi Ray,
it was Jo's post message that she used to work at summerfield school for the deaf. I went there with my friends and took the photo of ex-summerfield school for the deaf white building. I have got information about the old building that I have contacted Worcester Record Office and they send me information about it, I think. So I will have a look in my paperwork and I will let u know about it. I not sure if it about the sick children in the old building.
let you know.
Wildlady
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kingpettey
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Hi Wildlady,
Thank you. On my visit there I spoke to the cleaner and she said one of the tenants used to work at the deaf school and can recall pigs at bottom of garden (Now the site of new houses) which there was when I was there.
By the way the cleaner said quite a few deaf folks come for a look around the place.
Once again thanks and look forward to any information you may have.
Ray
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jo_46
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Hi ray
I am not sure when the principal Bill Eulenkamp and his wife ( who was known to the pupils as Miss rutter) opened the school, but my husband was a pupil there in the early 1960s. I worked as a childcare assistant and can remember its interior very well. The basement had a cloakroom where the children left their coats and shoes ( they wore plimsoles in the house) There was also a hall where they could play indoor games. On the first floor there was the kitchen and a small dining room across the hall. On the second floor the rooms were split into colours ie Pink room, green room etc. These were large rooms where the boarders did their prep. Its possible they were originally wards and had been divided into these seperate rooms. The next floor was at ground level to the front of the building. It had a reception room, an office and a large dining room with a dumb waiter. Stairs to the next floor led to the boys dormatories and a very old fashioned bathroom, which housed 2 small baths and 3 or 4 washbasins. Once again it is possible there was originally 1 or 2 wards which had been seperated into bedrooms. There was the principals lounge and bedrooms on the next floor. The Girls floor was very similar with the top floor being seperated into small rooms for the older girls. One of the cleaners lived in a small cottage at the back of the school which had been the hospital morgue 
I am not sure if I am right, but i have a vague idea that it may have taken wounded soldiers during the war.
Not sure if this has helped at all.
Jo
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kingpettey
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Hi Jo,
Firstly apologies for not getting back to you sooner, one of those life busy times.
Thanks for the detailed description and although it casts some doubt if it was the right place even that helps as I may need to look at abodes close by. But my gut tells me it's the right place. Unfortunately unlike you I can't back that up with memories as childhood recollections are scant at best. I do remember well not wanting to go home, grass, trees, pigs, chickens, clean comfortable bed, good food, pocket money to spend at shop on the bend didn't compare with life in the slums (OK I'll stop before the violin starts playing) On a more serious note a scant memory trying to find the correct place of happy times is somewhat frustrating. I also recall sleeping in what seemed the loft and lessons in the building but where?
I'm not asking you do this, just your opinion, do you feel Kelly's of that area in circa 1952/53 (I'm told I was 7 at the time) would state what the building and those close by were being used for?
Thanks again for your help
Ray
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Ray77
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A bit late into this but I spent a month there as child in about 1955. The photo of St.Cuthbert's looks more like it, but I too thought it was much larger. The one thing I do remember about it, that has not been mentioned, is that it had an outside swimming pool. I was there in the winter and it was frozen over.
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netti
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Hello Ray77 and welcome to rootschat
It's amazing how many people on here are connected to St Cuthberts and Summerfield.
Well I think I can clear a few things up as I have just managed to refer to a 1950 Kellys...
141 Worcester Road, Birmingham Hospital Saturday Fund, The Hugh Sumner Convalescent Home for Children. Matron Miss E Pearce
177 Worcester Road, Birmingham Children's Hospital Annex, St Cuthberts. Sister in Charge Miss C McGhie SRN
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Wildlady
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I have got the newspaper about the hospital which I asked at Worcesster Record Office and they send me a copy of the newspaper
Wild lady
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Wildlady
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I have done copy typing of the newspaper as I couldn't get the newspaper in this rootschat.
MALVERN MEMORIES - 7th September 2007 (Malvern Gazette & Ledbury Reporter)
It is 60 years since Wendy Grounds, of Pickersleigh Road, started her traning as a paediatric nurse, and this week she recalls her days at St Cuthbert's Hospital, an annexe of the Birmingham Children's Hospital which stood on Worcester Road on the site now occupied by Morgan Court. Next dor is Baxhill Nursery, formerly the hospial's training school, which remains very much as it was then.
HAPPY MEMORIES OF HOSPITAL DAYS
My colleagues and I were 18 years old in that hot August of 1947.
We arrived in summer dresses, soon replaced by white uniforms with black shoes and stockings, ropped offwith starched caps.
During the preliminary training we learned how to give bed baths, enemas, injections and sit patients on bed pans - all with the help of a floppy,worn dummy. We bandaged each other into spirals, reverse spiralsand figures of eight and learned how to copewith anyone haemorrhaging to death. We were fully-fledged probationary nurses.
The young patients were suffering from tuberculosis, arthritis, burns that needed skin grafts and so on. They stayed at St Cuthbert's for months at a time and when well enough went to the hospital school next door.
For the night nurse it was a long lonely vigil as the wind whistled through the windows of the open-air ward where children with weak chests slept.
It was unnerving when curious strangers prowled around and peered through the shutters, but even more unnerving when one night one actually got in.
On the night a little boy from the open-air ward climbed out of his cot and sat on my knee. I put him back to bed and tucked him in but within minutes he was out again demanding to be cuddled.
"What the matter with you tonight?" I enquired, non-plussed by his behaviour. "I'm frickened" he admitted. "Why are you afraid?" I asked, "Cos there's a man under my bed and I want him to go away". I had to do something.
I placed the child on my chair, wrapped him in my cloak and walked into the open-air ward. I looked straight under the cot and sure enough a soldier was crouched there. "Out" I commanded.
He struggled from under the cot, jumped through the open window and headed off up the Worcester Road.
What had he got in mind? Perhaps he had just come in out of the cold.
We often talk about our hospital days and think foudly of St Cuthbert's and the children there.
Many of them were only a few years younger than us but we wonder if they remember their days playing in the garden with a young nurses and splashing in the pool.
I hope they grew up to overcome the problems of their early years and look back with pleasant memories of their spell at Malvern.
copy-typed by wildlady (Valerie)
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Wildlady
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Hi Ray, sorry for delay, I let you know that I have found a newspaper of Malvern about St. Cuthbert's Hospital which I had from Worcester Record Office last year. SO you can read about Happy Memories of Hospital days that I have typing out on this roots chat.
Wildlady (Valerie)
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kingpettey
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Wildlady (Valerie),
Thank for your efforts, much appreciated. The warmth and love I received is still felt today, some 55 plus years on.
netti, thank you for Kelly’s look up.
Forgive my aging brain that this weekend suffered the pleasures of a grandsons 18th (boy do I feel old), but I‘m confused.
Is 171 Worcester Rd St Cuthbert’s?
Is 141 Worcester Rd Summerfield’s?
Thanks again
Ray
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