RAINHILL HOSPITAL - Records

[dotty]

Thanks for the reply

Dotty

[jacko-to]

OOPS!

I somehow have missed all these messages - poor old Mary Ann died in the Annexe.

Thanks for the info - I've been meaning to go to central library since Xmas (lazy as I am) but I think I'll make the effort now.

I'll let you know how I get on.

Angie

[churchmouse]

The only hospital in St.Helens town centre at that time was The Providence Hospital in Tolver Street.  Part of it is still standing and now converted into flats.  No maternity wards there though...The Maternity Hospital at that time was Cowley Hill Maternity Hospital, which was on Cowley Hill Lane, St. Helens..
In later years patients from Rainhill Hospital would probably have gone to Whiston Hospital to have their babies.

[churchmouse]

Jacko-to

As far as I know Rainhill Hospital was never referred to as Eccleston Mental Hospital..it was always known as Rainhill County ??Asylum.
There was a hospital called Eccleston Hall which still stands and has been a Sanitorium and Elderley Persons Home. Maybe in the 40's it was used as a Mental Hospital (you know the war and things)

[churchmouse]

PS Jacko-to

St.Helens Archive Library would give you details of Eccleston Hall and its previous uses.

[dotty]

Oh doesn't this genealogy lark get you pondering!!!! Aways been told I was born at St Marys --decided to get my birth certificate out ---where born-----1a Elton Head  Road St Helens U.D   can anybody solve this query now? Would this be the address of Rainhill Assylum?

Dotty

[Valda]

You could ask here

http://www.dwnw13400.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/index.htm

Regards

Valda

[anniej]

One entrance to Rainhill Hospital was on Elton Head Road the other on Rainhill Rd. The only building that is left is now called the Scott Clinic and its right on the corner so presumably 1a. I remember a neighbour of mine being treated there about 20years ago for post natal depression but now it is a secure unit. It may be that the buiding was the 'hospital' wing. I know an old lady who was a nurse at Rainhill for many years, I will ask her what happened to maternity cases.

I have been told by a number of old St Helens residents that St Mary's Hospital did exist and was run by nuns just as the Providence Hospital was.

In the 1891 census Rainhill Hospital is described as Eccleston Asylum presumably because it was within the old Eccleston Parish.

Eccleston Hall Hospital was a Sanotorium.

[jacko-to]

The following link may be useful:-

http://www.mdx.ac.uk/WWW/STUDY/4_13_TA.htm#Rainhill

There is also a link to another site called The Colonade which may be helfull too.

Angie