Tregony Bereweeke Rd Winchester

[cath151]

There were several births so it looks like it may have been a maternity home, a couple of the births seem to belong to forces families. I think "Nursing Home" would probably have had a different meaning as it does now ie a home for older people.
Only supposition though

Cathy
Added... just found this Portsmouth Evening News 4th Dec 1943

[stanmapstone]

The 1939 Telephone Directory shows a G.R. Footner at Tregony, Bereweeke Road, Winchester.
Also from the Sussex Agricultural Express 04 August 1944
Stan

[Mgrover]

There were several births so it looks like it may have been a maternity home, a couple of the births seem to belong to forces families. I think "Nursing Home" would probably have had a different meaning as it does now ie a home for older people.
Only supposition though

Cathy
Added... just found this Portsmouth Evening News 4th Dec 1943

Wow thank you. I am from the portsmouth area and my mum was born in 1945. What archive was this found please?

[Mgrover]

The 1939 Telephone Directory shows a G.R. Footner at Tregony, Bereweeke Road, Winchester.
Also from the Sussex Agricultural Express 04 August 1944
Stan

Thank you Stan. Are there any other birth announcements that you’ve come across?

[cath151]

Newspaper archives can be found here, are you looking for a particular surname?


https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results/1940-01-01/1949-12-31?basicsearch=tregony&somesearch=tregony&retrievecountrycounts=false&newspapertitle=portsmouth%2bevening%2bnews

or on Findmypast.

Cathy

[Mgrover]

Newspaper archives can be found here, are you looking for a particular surname?


https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results/1940-01-01/1949-12-31?basicsearch=tregony&somesearch=tregony&retrievecountrycounts=false&newspapertitle=portsmouth%2bevening%2bnews

Hi, yes, the surname Saunders if you come across anything x

or on Findmypast.

Cathy

[CarolA3]

There are a few birth notices in local newspapers for children born at Tregony ( or Tregony Nursing Home) Bereweeke Road, Winchester in the mid 1940 s.

Cathy

Hi Cathy,, so it was definitely a nursing home? It's listed as my Mum's place of birth but all very odd that she was born there.

Speaking as someone who was born in a nursing home in the 1950s, I don't find it odd at all.  It just meant that there were qualified nurses on the staff.

Carol

[stanmapstone]

It was a Maternity Home, not a Nursing Home. This is from the 1945 Annual Health Report of the County Medical Officer of Hampshire County Council. https://archive.org/details/b29409263

Stan

[Mgrover]

There are a few birth notices in local newspapers for children born at Tregony ( or Tregony Nursing Home) Bereweeke Road, Winchester in the mid 1940 s.

Cathy

Hi Cathy,, so it was definitely a nursing home? It's listed as my Mum's place of birth but all very odd that she was born there.

Speaking as someone who was born in a nursing home in the 1950s, I don't find it odd at all.  It just meant that there were qualified nurses on the staff.

Carol

It was odd for my family Carol as they weren’t local to the area and no means of transport back then.