I have struggled in vain to find anything in old newspapers to corroborate that Cairndhu House was a war hospital supply depot, to the extent that I'm starting to question if it is one of these things that someone has incorrectly stated on the internet and others over time have simply picked up as gospel and restated.
Newspapers of the 1940s confirm that Lady Dixon was president of the Larne War Hospital Supply Depot, however there is one reference to Lady Dixon inviting
'an almost full contingent of the workers at the Larne War Hospital Supply Depot ... to visit Cairndhu and partake of her hospitality'. My question is, why would they need to 'visit' Cairndhu if that house was the Supply Depot?
There is however a 1946 reference to a Larne house called Clogrennan being
'used during the war as the headquarters of the local War Hospital Supply Depot', clippings in the following 'invermuseum' website show the house and describe it as 'THE LARNE RESIDENCE OF THE MAYOR AND MAYORESS, SIR THOMAS AND LADY DIXON, WHICH HAS BEEN HANDED OVER TO THE BOROUGH AS A WAR HOSPITAL SUPPLY DEPOT':
http://invermuseum.com/exhibits/temporary-exhibit/ (I had to increase my screen size to 200% to read the clipping captions)
Clogrennan still exists in Andrew Avenue, Larne, and is a Northern Health and Social Care Trust property:
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01pw9/I'm happy to be corrected, but I'm wondering if the internet references about Cairndhu House are based on a confusion?
