Tag Archives: St Matthews Road

St, Matthews Hospital – can you help?

Posted on January 12, 2012 by

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 →

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The folk on the hill

Posted on January 5, 2012 by

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 →

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This won’t hurt – Images of St. Matthews Hospital, Burntwood

Posted on July 23, 2011 by

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 →

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Unspoken histories – what do you know?

Posted on July 19, 2011 by

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 →

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