My Home For 7 Years
This is just how I remember the hospital which I first went into in 1955 and stayed in for 7 years. It was a marvellous place and I have many memories from those days including a visit by Billy Smarts Circus, taking my 11 plus on my own in an upstairs room, being close to death and wheeled into the hall to be more quiet, then having my going up ceremony from cubs to scouts in the grounds of the hospital. The staff were magnificent and I remember Nurse Chum who had a finger missing and Nurse Hayward who all the young boys were in love with. Here I am 58 and still here thanks to those great people.
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Timothy, I was in Bursledon for 6 months in 1959 recoveing from rheumatic fever so we must have known each other. I do recall the lovely polished floor in the hall and sliding along it on my knees in long trousers. Upstairs, I think was for babies - we had the ground floor. The nurse I remember most was a lovely blonde German and of course Matron all in Green (we need more like her now). My parents could only come at weekends and I got to love it there and I was quite upset when I knew I would not be going back. I recall Harry Secombe was meant to vist but could not because he had a cold, his agent brought a tin of chocolates as compensation. By a quirk of fate I was to see him years later in the office I worked where he did a scene for his TV show (used to go out on a Sunday) in our lifts.
Comment from John Witts on Friday, 2nd March 2012.