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Tag Archives: St Matthews Road
St, Matthews Hospital – can you help?
Following on from last week’s post about the the remarkable gallery of images of St. Matthews Hospital in Burntwood, the poster of those images, Tony Briggs, has been in touch to ask if anyone can help him gather personal reminiscences … Continue reading
Posted in Churches, Environment, Followups, Fun stuff to see and do, Interesting photos, Local Blogs, Local History, Local media, News, Reader enquiries, Shared media, Shared memories, Social Media, Spotted whilst browsing the web
Tagged asylum, Brownhills local history, Burntwood, Burntwood Lunatic Asylum, Burntwood Mental Hospital, Coulter Lane, David Budden, Derelict, Local History, mental hospital, Midlands Heritage Forum, new pictures, Picasa, Redevelopment, Social Services, St Matthews Hospital, St Matthews Road, Staffordshire, Tony Briggs, Yamahapaul
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The folk on the hill
It’s with great interest and thanks to the dedicated folks over at the Midlands Heritage Forum, that I can now highlight new information being collated about St. Matthews Hospital. Forum stalwarts YamahaPaul and TonyB appear to have done a great … Continue reading
Posted in Brownhills stuff, Churches, Environment, Features, Followups, Fun stuff to see and do, Interesting photos, Local History, Local media, Reader enquiries, Shared media, Shared memories, Social Media, Spotted whilst browsing the web
Tagged asylum, Brownhills local history, Burntwood, Burntwood Lunatic Asylum, Burntwood Mental Hospital, Coulter Lane, David Budden, Derelict, Local History, mental hospital, Midlands Heritage Forum, new pictures, Picasa, Redevelopment, Social Services, St Matthews Hospital, St Matthews Road, Staffordshire, Tony Briggs, Yamahapaul
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This won’t hurt – Images of St. Matthews Hospital, Burntwood
Following my post earlier this week about Burntwood Asylum – latterly St .Matthews Hospital – I have been bowled over by the response of readers to what I thought might be a taboo subject. From reader responses – including some … Continue reading
Posted in Brownhills stuff, Environment, Features, Followups, Fun stuff to see and do, Local History, Local media, Reader enquiries, Shared media, Shared memories, Spotted whilst browsing the web
Tagged Anna Neagle, Anna Sadowski, Brownhills local history, Burntwood, Burntwood Lunatic Asylum, Burntwood Mental Hospital, Coulter Lane, Derelict, Ingrid Croot, Local History, Mary Hutchinson, mental hospital, planning, Redevelopment, Social Services, St Matthews Hospital, St Matthews Road, Staffordshire, This Won't Hurt, Woodhouses
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Unspoken histories – what do you know?
I’m respectfully making an enquiry as to a bit of history that isn’t talked about much and may be quite sensitive for some. This is a subject that has long interested me in one form or another, and I think … Continue reading
Posted in Churches, Environment, Interesting photos, Local History, Local media, News, Shared media, Shared memories, Social Media, Spotted whilst browsing the web, Walsall community
Tagged asylum, Brownhills local history, Burntwood, Burntwood Lunatic Asylum, Burntwood Mental Hospital, Cane Hill, Coulter Lane, Derelict, Local History, mechanised, mental hospital, Old maps, planning, Rauceby, Redevelopment, Social Services, St Matthews Hospital, St Matthews Road, Staffordshire, This Won't Hurt, urbex uk, Woodhouses
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