Nork, Cuddington Hospital c.1955

Photo ref: N184032

I spent weeks in an isolation ward, my parents only being able to speak through a glass window. My many toys i accumulated after many weeks had to be left, until the morning I was due to leave a wonderful nurse called Tracy led me along a corridor into a bathroom which she then filled the bath with a pink liquid and to my delight we immersed the dinky toys into the bath and spent ages drying them off. what a wonderful ...see more

Sometime during the autumn of 1945 our neighbour, who lived in The Oval, Banstead, comforted a Canadian woman she saw crying in High Street. That woman had flown over to visit her airman husband who was in Cuddington Isolation Hospital with diphtheria. Guess what ... my neighbour's daughter caught diphtheria - or, at least, it was said that she was a carrier. She was in Cuddington for a few weeks and came ...see more

In 1949 there was a large outbreak of Scarlet Fever in the U.K. I was just four years old and was diagnosed with Scarlet Fever. I was admitted to Cuddington (I lived in Banstead) and spent the next five weeks there. I remember that the ward I was in had long lines of beds along each wall with a nurse's station in the middle of the room. I had my fifth birthday whilst in the hospital. I was not allowed any ...see more