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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Worcestershire => Topic started by: kingpettey on Tuesday 16 September 08 15:03 BST (UK)
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As a child in circa 1952 I spent some time in a Malvern Convalescent home. My memory recalls vaguely it was on a main road, uphill from the home were some shops and I think the home was called Fox Gloves?
Have any locals any thoughts to help me find the correct location and from that a picture of it.
Ray
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Hi Ray
I have checked my street directory of Malvern for 1940 and there is no Fox Glove Home. A family member has a directory for 1950 so I will take a look over the weekend and get back to you.
There was a large convalescent home called St Cuthberts which I have seen mentioned on other sites. Perhaps Fox Glove was a part of it? It was on the main road and opposite there is Malvern Link Common, a large open space with trees and grassland. Bordering the common is a fine row of trees (limes I think). Up the hill from this location the road curves to the left to follow the line of the Malvern Hills, and there are shops here on the bend. (Link Top) Does any of this sound familiar?
regards
netti
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Hi Netti,
Thank you for your reply and efforts.
I was aged circa 7 (1952) recovering from a fractured skull thus my memory is vague (good excuse). However the memory that lasted is green grass everywhere something not seen in the slums of Birmingham.
It was a main road. The back garden ran downhill quite steeply. Shops we used to go to once a week where up the hill and could well have been on a bend.
Regards
Ray
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Hi
I used to work at Summerfield school for the deaf at the end of the 1970's and i know that it had previously been a home for sick children. It is a large building that stands opposite the common. The school closed and it has been turned into flats. Do you think this could be it?
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Hi, thanks for reply.
It could well be, guess I will have to find time to come and look see as I'm sure I would recognize the location and the building even though its been turned into flats
Ray
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I note St Cuthberts post 1948 was Under Birmingam control as
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So it could well be the one.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords/details.asp?id=2338&page=57
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Could you tell me the name of the road facing the common and if possible a side road nearby so I can try to locate the location and may be the building via Google map/satelite
Ray
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The road is Worcester Road and it is the A449. St Cuthberts, I believe, was somewhere between Osbourne Road and Albert Park Road.
Summerfield is further up, between Albert Park Road and Alexandra Road.
hope this helps
netti
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It all helps thanks.
Had a look at Google, if the buildings are the same then 2 or 3 front roof lines fit the bill. I can recall the ambulance used to park on the road as then there was no drive and the long downhill back garden had pigs and chickens at the bottom.
Ray
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Hello everyone,
I was about 7 or 8 when I stayed in a Malvern convalescent home in the mid 1950's.
I lived in the Sparkbrook area of Birmingham and went to Malvern to recover from Pneumonia.
I'm sure it was the same home that you stayed at, Ray.
I have a few memories-
Every day, I was given a spoonful of malt along with the other kids.
I also remember my dad coming to visit me on a Sunday afternoon. He used to catch a Midland Red bus from Birmingham and if I remember correctly, I was able to see him get on/off the bus on the main road at the bottom of a hill.
I think there was an area within the grounds called the Paddock.
To keep us occupied, we were given small shaped pieces of wood which were stuck together to make models of small birds/animals and then painted.
I'd like to see any pictures of the home- past and present if there are any available.
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Hello Clipper and all.
I did go look at the locations given above. The one that seemed right being close to the road, a similar style although it seemed taller to what I can recall, had a downward sloping rear garden, now built on. Although I cannot remember it there is a sign on the gate ‘Summerfield’. As a previous poster pointed out and a lady I spoke to at what is now a block of flats confirmed it was a home for the deaf before being a home for sick children.
I went there due to a head accident which did effect my memory (comes in handy as an excuse at times – smiling), thus my learning concentrated on memory games. One game that sticks in my mind which we also used to play on bus rides out, much to the looks of bewilderment of other passengers, was adding the alphabet to words. An example “The cat sat on the mat” was spoken “Athe Bcat Csat Don Ethe Fmat”
Clipper from you what say this may not be the same one as the one you can recall as the bus stop was not too far from the home and circa 200 yds up from the Train station. However I did take some photos, if you think it could the same home I will look to see how I can post them to you - let us know.
Ray
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I have a picture of St Cuthberts which I will attempt to add here.
netti
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St Cuthberts began life as a boys' school in 1904 - the school closed in the 1940's.
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Summerfield Rear
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Summerfield Front
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Yes, you understood correctly Ray. It appears the Birmingham Hospital Saturday Fund had several convalescent homes including the ones in Malvern. They first opened St Anns Orchard, also Worcester Rd, for women. Followed by The Hugh Sumner Home - funded with a generous gift from Hugh Sumner - for children. St Cuthberts was an annex to it - although about 300 yards further down the road.
You can google for more info.
The children's home was sold in around 1965 and went on to become Summerfield School for the Deaf. It was not called Summerfield when it was part of Birmingham Hospital.
St Cuthberts was demolished and has a sheltered housing complex on it now. A few doors down, Malvern is finally getting a new hospital, 25 years after the land was purchased to build it upon ::)
netti
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netti,
Thank you, that's a great help.
Good luck with the new hospital
Ray
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I attended st Cuthbert's around 1964, i have a picture from the Malvern Gazette dated February 28th. 1964 siting on my bed the sister in charge was sister Archibald, my memory be it vague was a large building with a conservatory on the side which housed beds, past this opened into the rear walled garden with very tall trees at the bottom, to the front was also a wall with a large tree, I remember my dad visiting on a Sunday and Wednesday.
I'm not sure if it's correct but the name nurse Bins rings a bell!!
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St Cuthberts began life as a boys' school in 1904 - the school closed in the 1940's.
this is exactly as I remember, I have a photo of me in a wheel chair taken outside the front entrance.
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Hi everyone,
This forum about St Cuthberts brings back a lot of bad memory's for me as I was there as a small boy of 5 years old with TB in 1952 and I stayed for 10 months. I would have been there at the same time as you Raymond, small world. My father had TB at the same time so he could not come to see me but my mother came once a month from Birmingham not very often you might say but she told me later that money was very short. I remember every time she left me I thought she would not come back and I used to try to climb up onto the stone wall that was facing the Worcester road, and try to see her leaving but I was far to small and I would stand there crying my eyes out. I remember one day the big lads tied me to a tree and left me there for what seemed like ages.
One day I was told off by one of the nurses for throwing my hard boiled egg out of the bed, I must have wanted it runny ha ha. I also remember my mother bringing me a large tin frog with a green felt cloth on it and I only had it a few days and managed to peel it all off. You can see by now i was not a happy bunny.
I remembered one night all these fireworks going off must have been Nov 5th. Even at 5 years old I can remember how lovely the grounds of the hospital where with the tall trees everywhere and the lovely hills close by. In the summer I have a feeling they used to push the beds outside at night under the stars with a rubber blanket on top, maybe just the TB patients.
I lost my mother in August 2009 at the good old age of 87 but before she was ill in Nov 2008. My mother and my wife and me went back and found where the Hospital used to be, now posh flats. What lovely surroundings with the Links on one side hills on the other. I remembered the Hills straight away as that is what we looked onto from our beds.
I did get over my TB with care and attention and fresh Malvern Air, I 'm now nearly 64 now, hope my Wife will still feed me at 64 ha ha, and living in Shropshire.
That's all for now sorry my story's a bit sad but that's what it was like for me at 5 years old.
All the very best Glenn.
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great to hear your memories Glenn - and that you don't hold a grudge against Malvern! Can't imagine being sent away at just 5, no wonder you were upset.
netti
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Hi everyone.
I have just come across this site about St Cuthbert’s. I have enjoyed reading all the comments and it brings a tear to my eye.
I was there at the age of 6 in in 1959 I have vivid memories but also think that as a child they are recalled differently. I was taken there from the children’s hospital after 6 months when I had TB, no one in those days thought to tell children what was happening to them, thank goodness times have changed. I was worried (very) that my parents would not know where I was being taken to. It did seem like to the end of the earth.
I remember them visiting possibly only on Wednesday’s and Sunday's. I lived in Quinton at that time and my mom used to come on the bus from Digbeth, what a jaunt that would have been. We had a greengrocer's shop and so I only saw my dad on a Sunday. I remember one of the boys was called John and he came from Dale end and Dad and took him out for the day when we finally got home.
I remember going to the toilet one night and jumped back in bed and fell out the other side, and bumping the side of my face. So worried that I would never get home I tried to hide the growing lump but a nurse discovered it when washing my hair. The result of that was another operation back at the hospital.
I remember the house and the gardens, swings and slides, and looking over the common at the front. I must have spent a lot of time in bed or a wheelchair because I remember one day I could not stand up my legs were so weak, and I was trying to stand by the front door and look for my mom or nan who were due to visit me.
When I was told I was going home I could not wait to tell mom and dad but one of the other girls told them before I had the chance I actually through a complete wobbly after all that time she stole my thunder. I forgive you now whoever you are.
I would love to hear from anyone who was there at that time, my name was Jayne Marshall I spent 6 months there so was away from home 1 year in total. I then had a reoccurrence of the TB, back into the children's but not go back to Malvern after the second bout.
Touch wood I have been fairly healthy since those days.
Jayne x
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Hi Just been reading the memories of St Cuthberts, I too was transfered from B'ham Childrens Hosp to Malvern after a bout of Pneumonia. I was upstairs in a room with 4 other girls and across the corridor was the Babies room. I can remember some beautiful doll's prams which were parked by the wheel chairs but we weren't allowed to touch! I remember having to walk around the gardens when my parents visited on Sunday and how cold it was. I also remember the school rooms across the garden. On room was for younger children and the other for older children and strangely enough I can remember learning about Christopher Columbus. !!!! I don't have very happy memories of the place as I think it was the first time I can across older children bullying younger ones - I remember one girl used to wet the bed and her life was hell. But ofcause I must have only been about seven so the weeks I spent there seemed for ever. Wish time would slow down now!
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Hi 0121mariec
Lovely to read your comments, sorry your memories were not not good, mine are more emotional as I felt so isolated, never knowing what was going to happen to you. With regards to the schooling I vaguely remember a school room but always thought it was at the Childdren's hopsital.
I also remember strolling around the grounds with my parents, I was there during the summer months so not cold as you recall, as I had my 6th Birthday there in August.
I agree that the time seemed endless at that time, strange how it speeds up as we get older lol.
Jayne
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I too remember spending a lot of my childhood at st cuthberts
I remember nurse bins and I think there was a nurse little as well
The salvation army used to come and do Sunday school. There
was a big stairway, and I remember the large slide in the garden.
There was a lovely smell of pine trees. It was in the mid sixties
That I spent a lot of time there for recurrent chest problems.
I was there several times and remember my last visit well as it was
due to close down. I also remember vividly the plates and cups
were stainless steel YUK!!!! If anyone knows where I can get
some old photos memoirs on this place I would be extremely
Grateful
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hi
I must of been there about the same time as you. Do you remember a big cupboard thatused to be under the stairs. I was sent there from birmingham childrens hospital quite a few times in the 1960s referred there by Doctor Cant who was then my consultant. Would love toget hold of any old pictures that might be available
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It would have been around 1963-64 I was there for 1 year and still have some vivid memories, I remember the large cupboard under the stairs and being locked in there for bad behaviour, I to was referred by Dr.Cant, how nice would it be to have a St. Cuthbert's reunion.
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I would be happy to be involved in a reunion,I am still in the Midlands so not a problem for me, I dare say many have moved further afield. The name Binns does ring bells with me also.
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It would be good to have a reunion and get hold of any pictures that might be available anyone have ideas on how or where to arrange one?
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I do not have any pictures, but I am up for a reunion. It is difficult to know how many people would be interested but worth a go. I live in the Solihull but would be willling to travel to a venue to suit all concerned.
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A reunion would be good I still live in midlands. If anyone is interested please post ur interest and we can try to arrange.
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Hi
Still living in B'ham and would be very interested in reunion
Marie
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Any ideas on how to arrange one?
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Hi,
It seems there are about 4 of us interested in a reunion, what if we put our names and where we live on this list, give it a few weeks and then make a decision.
JeDale I live in Solihull
Sixties
mariec
wmmskoo
I think it sounds quite exciting.
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Sixties - I live in Derbyshire (very close to m42) so travel to Birmingham isn't a problem still have family in birmingham
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Marie - live in Sheldon Birmingham.
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Michael , I'm also local living in Barford near Stratford upon Avon!!
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Me in a wheelchair outside the front entrance.
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Wow I remember that doorway behind you so well. What year was that? I went there several times throughout the sixties right up until it closed, it was like a second home to me, which is why I would love a reunion. Has anyone got any more pictures?
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What a great picture - brings back so many memories. Marie
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Hi, this picture would have been taken in the summer of 1964 I would have been 8 yrs. old at the time, I stayed there for approx 1yr from 1963 to 1964 so I'm sure there are people in the forum who would have been there around that time, I wish my parents had taken more photo's, I have the local Malvern Gazette dated February 1964 which has an article on St. Cuthberts, unfortunately I'm having problems adding it to the forum I think it to large but I would be happy to scan and email it to anyone intrested.
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Hi,
It's looking very positive for a reunion.
I live in Solihull
0121marie c - Sheldon
Sixties - Derby
WmmsKoo - Barford
If this is it then we may as well agree a date and venue, I am happy to go along with the majority. We could meet in Solihull if that suits Sixties, as it is local to the other 3, or Birmingham if that is a better option.
Unfortunately I do not have any photographs which is amazing as there are hundreds of my childhood apart from that.
Would a reunion be possible before Christmas or would the majority prefer to wait until the new year. I do not mind I guess we all have pretty busy lives as that is the way of the world these days.
I was at St Cuthberts for 6 months in 1959 as I had my 6th birthday there, I was 58 in August, my name is Jayne I work full time and have been married for 37 years. I have 2 children 30 and 34 and about to become a Grandmother in April. That pretty much sums me up for the time being.
I look forward to your comments and meeting you all in the near future.
Jayne
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Hi
Happy to meet up before or after Christmas. I was there in 1961, and I was 8 years old at the time.
Look forward to meeting up with you all soon. Marie
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Hi, it look like we are all up for the re-union the new year would be better for me due to work commitments and holidays, I’m fine with Solihull shell we meet on an evening in a local pub, Sixties has quite a distance to travel so a day event might be better, let me know your thoughts.
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Hi,
Yes it's looking good, the new year fine with me as life very hectic and Xmas will be around the next corner lol.
I agree sixties should make the decision due to distance.
So looking forward to meeting you all.
Jayne x
P.S. I have been in the loft and sought out a huge box of photographs that has not been looked at for years, so am hopeful will come across some of St Cuthberts
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Hi
Sounds good, new year better though. Sorry for delay been away and having to rely on iPhone with a very poor signal. Is Sutton coldfield too far for people as I can get there quite easily, not familiar with the Solihull side of Birmingham ? If not I don't mind travelling that bit extra. Think I might be the 'baby' of the group I turned 50 last January, so although I went to st cuthberts several times it must of been 1965ish until it's closure in about 1969. I remember being one if the last children there.
I look forward to meeting you
My name is Diane
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Hi Diane,
Sutton fine with me as as I work over that side of Birmigham even though I live in the South side, we will see what the others say. It certainly looks like a reunion will take place now so that is great news.
I think you may well be the baby from what you say.
I think the next step is to decide on a date do you prefer day or evening?. For myself a day would have to be at the weekend as I work in a school, an evening I could arrange to fit it with the majority. lets put it out to the vote to marie and wmskoo, speak soon.
Jayne
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Great - I don't mind daytime or evening but like Jayne I work mon-fri so a daytime reunion would have to be a weekend.
Diane
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My only commitment is Sat Mornings. Regards Marie
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Try a google search, the Malvern Gazette Article is about third in the list.
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What if we meet on a Saturday afternoon in Sutton Colfield, would that suit all concerned. Jayne
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Hi
Saturday afternoon is great for me after about 2pm as my son has to be taken somewhere on Saturday morning
Diane
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Ok, do we all agree Saturday afternoon at 2.00PM in a pub in somewhere Sutton after Christmas, any suggestions on a good pub!!
Looking forward to meeting you all.
Michael.
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Look forward to meeting you all, there are several pubs in Sutton can't remember what they are called though.
Diane
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Ok. I'll make enquiries at work, as most of my colleagues live in that area. We need to decide on the date now either 7th, 14th, 21st or 28th, any preferences? I need to keep either the 14th or 21st free but can decide at this stage.
Marie I can give you a lift if you would like, as it is more or less on the way.
Jayne
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might need to keep 14th free, any other date fine for me
Diane
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Hi all, lets go for Saturday 28th January at 2pm, meeting in a nice pub with ample parking to be nominated by Jayne, as I've changed slightly from the picture I posted on the forum I'll be the one carrying a old tatty copy of the Malvern Gazette, can all attending please confirm.
Michael.
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Sounds good to me. Jayne thanks for the lift offer.
regards Marie
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Saturday 28th is ok for me. Look forward to meeting u all
Diane
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Hi again
Pubs with parking on Sutton town centre may be a bit awkward. There is one called the cup but parking will be in multiple storey carpark near by, or if you go to mere green/four oaks there is the fox & dogs on slade rd or the plough (might actually be called plough & harrow) that's a bit further up on slade rd. Alternatively there is the bassetts pole which is a harvester pub just off A38
Hope that's a few ideas to consider
Diane
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Hi
My name is Mavis and I was at Malvern in 1950s. I would like to join you for the reunion. I live in Walsall so Sutton will be great. There is a pub called the Horse and Jockey which would be easy for parking, not right in the town centre. By the way I am Marie's Mother in Law!!!!
Mavis
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Hello Mavis
Is that the one on jockey road? I forgot that one there is a small carpark there so that too would be a good place to meet.
Diane
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Mavis welcome to the forum where have you been, Bassetts Pole sounds ideal to me its close enough to the M42 and has good parking.
Michael.
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I think the Bassetts Pole is ideal, I had it in mind anyway. I have just read that Mavis wants to join us. Welcome aboard Mavis and just read that you are Marie's Mother in law. I have just arranged to pick Marie up so it's all set.
The 28th is good for me also so lets stick with that if everyone is in agreement.
Jayne
PS maybe we should all wear the traditional carnation to be recogniosed unless there is a suitable clock to stand under lol
Jayne
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Hi
Bassetts pole then on 28th January at 2pm, if everyone else is in agreement, sounds great. Look forward to meeting you all
Diane
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Hi
My name is Mavis and I was at Malvern in 1950s. I would like to join you for the reunion. I live in Walsall so Sutton will be great. There is a pub called the Horse and Jockey which would be easy for parking, not right in the town centre. By the way I am Marie's Mother in Law!!!!
Mavis
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Hi it is not Bassats Pole its Sutton ColdfieldJockey Road Mavis
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Michael and Jayne both mentioned bassetts pole as it was close to m42 and easy to get to, so I thought that's where we were meeting. Sorry for confusion, can we clarify where we are meeting up
Thankyou
Diane
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Hi we are meeting at Horse and Jockey just before you get to Sutton town centre, coming fom Birmingham. I think it is Jockey Road. Mavis
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Hi,
I think I caused the confusion by mentioning the Bassetts Pole two messages later on, so apologies.
I am fine with the Horse and Jockey if that is ok with Diane as she is travelling the furthest, also with Michael from Stratford.
Jayne
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I to thought we had agreed on bassetts Pole, to stop any confusion I'm going there on the 28 Jan at 2:00pm if anybody has strong objections we can pick another venue, hopefully i won't be the only one there.
Michael
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That's what I thought Michael. Parking there is much easier than horse and jockey, it's easy to get to off m42 and saves driving either side of Sutton on a Saturday afternoon.
See you there
Diane
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I am in agreement, 28th Bassett's Pole at 2.00pm. Hope to see everyone there, will be in touch Marie about the lift.
Jayne
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Hello
Hope you all had a good Christmas is everyone still ok to meet at bassetts pole on sat 28th 2 pm or is the horse and jockey best?
Diane
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Hi Diane, enjoyed a traditional family Christmas at home with the addition of a new granddaughter, I'm still going to Bassetts Pole on the 28th and look forward to meeting you.
Regards,
Mick.
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Hi all,
I'm heading for the Bassett'ss Pole on the 28th at 2.00pm see you there
Jayne
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I also stayed at this home in 1949,my friend and I went to see if we could find it as she also went there, we did, it is now a childs day nursery.Our time there was awful so unkind and given we children were not fit they would end up in court today.
My own home never felt so good, that place was awful,(the home) the friend I mentioned we didnt meet at the home we met years after.