WW1 Auxillary Hospitals in Anglesey

[nestagj]

Here's the google maps link to Bodlondeb. The streetview image just shows the chimneys of the big house.  If you stand on the bridge you can see the old house - I think its been converted into apartments now.

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?biw=1280&bih=631&q=ll57+2hx&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.75097201,d.bGQ,pv.xjs.s.en.osGhOFssrxk.O&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&ei=TgMYVJWMCoGv7AacoYDoBw&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ

[nestagj]

This seems a good fit for Isallt Fawr

http://homes.findthebest.co.uk/l/10939168/Isallt-Fawr-Lon-Isallt-Holyhead-Isle-of-Anglesey-LL65-2UU

Have you seen this article

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/nostalgia/world-war-i-island-life-6696771

Reading this I would assume that The Assembly Rooms (Holborn Road) became Holborn Auxiliary Hospital and the Sailors’ Home (Newry Beach) became Beach Auxiliary Hospital

BY process of elimination I would then suspect that Hill Auxiliary Hospital, Holyhead was Llys y Gwynt (Llanfawr Close) Try these co-ordinates into Google Maps.  There appears to be an old house here amongst the bungalows.   I think its some kind of Local Authority property now by the look of it.

[bendywendy]

Many thanks everyone for the info, I have had a look around everything.
Some time ago I did post on this board this thread: http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=527508.0

I have reasons to believe my husband's grandmother, who was residing in Rhosneigr and married a Rowland Williams from Llanfaelog, lived at Oonavara and was working at Maelog Lake Hotel, but we have a photograph of her in what appears to be Nun's headwear, she told family she worked as a "nurse" to the wounded and convalecening soldiers, after a lot of searching for answers about the latter I think it may be Lady Thomas Convalescent Home, which on the other thread someone believes this place could have been Cliff Hotel, Anglesey Archives thought this place was known as the Beach Hospital

Looking at the maps this is some distance from Rhosneigr so she either travelled or moved, but she was still living at Oonavara Nov 1917, the only other thought is she worked part time as a volunteer and still worked at Maelog Lake Hotel.

This is the link to the photograph for her sporting what looks like a Nun's headwear:
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=508278.msg3647866#msg3647866
can anyone identify this headwear at the time on Anglesey of WW1

bendywendy

[nestagj]

Looking at the Daily Post article

as did the Lady Thomas  Convalescent Home which was opened in Holyhead a few months after the war (and later became the Gors Maternity Hospital)

[bendywendy]

Looks most likely she did either work or volunteer at Lady Thomas's... thanks everyone I know her dau will be happy that we have to some end sorted this mystery.

b.

[bendywendy]

Q. What was transport services like during this time if she didn't drive and still lived at Rhosneigr, more so in the winter weather and how long would it have taken to travel from R to Lady Thomas

bendywendy

[Boncyfelin]

There was a station/stop at Rhosneigr which was on the main line to Holyhead. Would have been regular trains even during wartime, more regular than today I would think.

[bendywendy]

thank you Boncyfelin.

I have been told on an Anglesey FB site that the Cliff Hotel was not Lady Thomas. I have emailed the National Archives Wales to ask if they will look through Lady Thomas's doc's for me to see if it gives an indication to where it was sited, also it didn't open until 1919.

bendywendy

[Boncyfelin]

As nestagj has said, The Lady Thomas Convalescent Hospital was in Gors Avenue, Holyhead and later became the Gors Maternity Hospital. There was no connection with the Cliff Hotel, known in those days as the Darien Hotel, which was in Trearddur Bay.