Woodhouse Eaves, The Children's Convalescent Home c.1955
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Charnwood Forest, the Children's Convalescent Home

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I too spent about 6 weeks there in the early sixties. i had recovered from Polio but was very sickly. i remember sleeping in the woods at lunch time if the weather was good all the ground sheets where stored in a shed. i remember how nice the cleared patch in the woods looked and felt you could not see anything past the perimeter fence it was dark with dense woods and ferns but the cleared area ...see more
I spent four months there when I was eight after being ill. I had my ninth birthday there and I remember always having malt and cod liver oil every night before bed.
I have photos of all of the bedrooms that were named after nursery rhymes.