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Re: Manchester 1940s births in Prestbury
« Reply #9 on: Thursday 13 August 15 11:25 BST (UK) »
Veronica

Does your brother have a copy of his birth certificate?  It may give a clue as to which premises he was born in?

Mine, 1945,  says St Marys Hospital [Village Branch] Prestbury R D [assume Rural District].

Collar House would probably have been shown as shown as St Marys Hospital Prestbury Main Branch.

Certainly a nice village to be born in whichever place it was.
Craven, tarporley cheshire; hulme manchester.
Meredith, manchester.
Scanlon, sligo ireland.
Barwick, grove & reading berks; wolverhampton staffs, manchester.
Simpson, pately bridge appletreewick & halifax yorks; manchester.
Dixon, storriths bolton abbey addingham & embsay yorks; manchester

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Re: Manchester 1940s births in Prestbury
« Reply #10 on: Thursday 13 August 15 12:31 BST (UK) »
My brother's birth certificate for 1950 said Village branch and our mum always said he was born in Collar House.

I am wondering how long Prestbury was used after the war.

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Re: Manchester 1940s births in Prestbury
« Reply #11 on: Saturday 12 August 17 16:45 BST (UK) »
I was born in December 1948 and my birth certificate says Prestbury. This correspondence suggests Prestbury Hall was only used till 1945, so is it more likely I was born in Collar House?
Ken, any ideas?

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Re: Manchester 1940s births in Prestbury
« Reply #12 on: Tuesday 15 August 17 13:06 BST (UK) »
Hi Mary

Somewhere on my computer I've got a PDF file of two chapters from a book about St Mary's Hospital and the chapters refer to the war years and the post war years and I think it mentions both units being open until the early 1950s, though Prestbury Hall was just used as nurses' accommodation for the last year of its existence.

I'll get in touch when I find the file.

Regards
Ken
Craven, tarporley cheshire; hulme manchester.
Meredith, manchester.
Scanlon, sligo ireland.
Barwick, grove & reading berks; wolverhampton staffs, manchester.
Simpson, pately bridge appletreewick & halifax yorks; manchester.
Dixon, storriths bolton abbey addingham & embsay yorks; manchester

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Re: Manchester 1940s births in Prestbury
« Reply #13 on: Tuesday 15 August 17 17:43 BST (UK) »
Thanks, Ken

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Re: Manchester 1940s births in Prestbury
« Reply #14 on: Friday 14 June 19 13:40 BST (UK) »
Yes. Highly likely. My mother was born in Collar House, October 30th 1946. It was the former home of Sir Oswald Moseley. I found this great little article online which might help shed some light  :)

http://brickcourse.blogspot.com/2013/10/a-wartime-hospital_27.html?m=1

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Re: Manchester 1940s births in Prestbury
« Reply #15 on: Sunday 07 July 19 08:58 BST (UK) »
Denise,
The article from the link states:

'One website states categorically that this had been the home of Sir Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists. Not very well researched for the Moseley family of Prestbury did not even spell their name in the same way as Sir Oswald'
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