st helens hospital

St Helens Hospital Frederick Road Hastings 1958 – first mobile telephone!!

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Matt Thomas… Looks like a scene from Benny Hill show

Monica Bane… So agree Matthew!

Diane Leigh… Man in bed very popular with the ladies.

Alan Esdaile… Diane, I don’t think he looks too happy or well.

Jim Breeds… It was funded by WRVS, some members of the WRVS are in the photo. It features in the book about the hospital

Janet Brophy… Did part of my nurses training @ St Helens, stayed 3 months in the nurses home.

Linda Boiling… It looks like Arthur Askey

Jacquie Hinves… Those were the days! I did my training at the RESH in the 70’s. We worked hard and played hard. Happiest days of my life.

Ju-ju Davies… Jacquie, Mr Hinves and colleagues saved my life in 1975 x

Sam Rosewell… I know that my Nan Rosewell (Sister “Rosie” Rosewell) was part of the school of nursing and she did work at St Helen’s for a while.

Ray Barry… I was born in that hospital.

Mike Guy… I remember when we had a mobile phone – you had to walk to the end of the street & waiting in the queue.

Iain Cobby… I was born there in 1955

Mark Randall… “Hurry up, you old bugger – some of us have got Dial-a-Disc to listen to”

Back of St Helens Hospital and Malvern Way fields 1960

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photo © Anthony ‘Nan’ Morland

Anthony ‘Nan’ Morland… photo taken in 1960 from School Road. Showing the back of St Helens Hospital and the fields which are now Malvern Way.

Matt Thomas… With Valleyside Road

Jennifer Stretton… Hope you’re ok Nan Morland??

John Greenhalgh… Turn the clock back and start again.

Harry Randall… Used to be known as “Tin Town” I think cos of all the allotment sheds up there

Ian Quinnell… Harry, Tin town because all houses were prefabs with tin roofs

Gary Benn… Ian, not tin roofs, but what are called bisifs. British Iron and Steel Federation houses. When we stopped needing to build warships the factories were turned to ‘good use’.

Roger King… Of course we’re looking at Valleyside Road here. I think those are the Tintown houses we can just see on the left edge of the photo (Fellows Road, Clement Hill Road etc.)

Matt Thomas… I remember Nan taking quite a few photos back in the 80s of different places that were going to be demolished, so got before & after pics

Vic Thwaites… Valleyside Road. I grew up in number 19 (to the right of the one at the top facing directly down the road). Happy childhood memories of playing rounders at the various gateposts round the circle at the top.

Steve Rolls… Can see the original “TinTown” council houses at far left side of the photo.

Tracy Birrell… Shame they ever built on there.

Claire Janet… I used to live in the nurses home at St Helens

Anne Chapman… We grew up there in the 60s and my gran lived there to at no 10 Happy childhood memories