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Long Stays at Hesswall
Hello everybody, so glad to find this page. My name was Anne-Marie Evers and I was in Hesswall Hospital throughout the 1970s but I remember a long stay in 1976. I was in Holbeck Ward [Ithink it was called]. I had very bad asthma and was often admitted to Myrtle Street Childrens Hospital in Liverpool then sent to convalesce in Hesswall. It was a lovely hospital with huge grounds and a steamroller and other things to play on. I remember the little school in the hospital and I enjoyed being there but I do wonder why the half year long stays were needed. My best friend was a little girl called Sarah Steele who sadly died. I remember Dr Daz and his son Ankor who used to play with the children in the grounds while his dad was on duty. Happy memories and I can still remember Sister Youds on my ward. I would love to hear from anyone who remembers this time.....x
Heswall Children's Hospital
My great-grandfather's uncle was the builder of the Hospital, and my great-grandfather came over from Northern Ireland to work for him as an apprentice joiner in 1880. He eventually settled in Birkenhead but cycled everyday from there to Heswall. He told me the route in those days was more or less a sandy path. His name was Thomas Kelly.
Sleeping in Outside Ward With Wire Netting at Outside Wall
I am not sure if this is the hospital, but it looks very much like it. I left the hospital in 1957, aged 13, and remember the school on the same site and two boys taking it in turns each evening to polish all the shoes. I was very happy there.
My Stay
I recall staying at this place in 1970. As a child I suffered from asthma and was referred here by Alder Hey. If it's the same place, it had a Lancaster bomber in its gardens. I remember a boy called Ian who was in with nerves, such a nice lad, and going to north Wales on day trips...fond memories.
1967 RLCH
I spent most of my childhood in and out of the hospital and have such wonderful happy memories. I was usually on Charlie Mac ward (Charles McAllister). I remember Sister Bromley (spoke to her only a few of years ago), Dr Burston and Peter Bush. They made a film of me as a baby then completed it in Myrtle Street when I was about 12.
I loved the steam roller, and after clinic visits mum and I went into Heswall and I was bought lovely fruit lollipops as a treat. So lovely to see the photos.
Margaret Bevan Home
Hi, does anyone remember the large portrait on the wall in the entrance of the Margaret Bevan Home, I am not sure which home it was, can anyone tell me where all the homes were besides Heswall? My email is: joytotheworld@yours.com Thank you in anticapation. Joyce xxx
Fond Memories
I was a patient at Heswall from January 1973 to July 1973. I was on the Florence Gibson Ward. What a fantastic place it was. I enjoyed every minute of it. I remember most of the staff. Sister Broughall, Staff Nurse Pat Robinson, Staff Nurse Mary Smith, SEN Margaret Deer, Nurses Nel Evans, Audrey Morgan. Elsie Taylor,Nuse Parr and not forgetting my all time favourite Staff Nurse Eva Seddon. I also recall the night staff. Nurse Martyn, Barbara Hall, Nurse Humphreys, Sister Stewart. The matron was Miss Simpson and Mrs Overend and Mr Begbie were the deputies. Our school teacher were Mrs Sharmon,Miss Barlow, Mrs Shacley, Mr Grundy. Mrs Carr who became Mrs Denton and the head Mr Hamer. Fellow patients I recall are Alun Morrison, Nick Houslay, Mark Earle, Stephen Balshaw, Michael Moore, David Langley, Billy Ryan, Mark Harrison, Bernard Gleniki, Matthew Taylor and Tony Flynn. I also recall the cleaners. Mrs Gaye, Mrs Woodward, Mrs Reid, Lou Hignett and Nora Smith. I am sure that I have missed... Read more
Great Times..
I was at the Royal Hospital for a few months in 1971, a wonderful memory rekindled due to working on the Wirral lately...38 years since I was there but I remembered just where it was while passing through Heswall. I remember Nurse Hessian very well, a happy go lucky young woman,v ery kind too. Eric Sullivan, Jimmy Mcgrail are names that spring to mind, Wendy Owen, a girl from my home town of Wrexham. I remember Michael Mosquito carving his name on the white boat in the grounds, also memories of my parents' visits and getting spoilt on days out in Hoylake,. I would be interested in the reunion if possible... good memories.
