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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Warwickshire => England => Warwickshire Lookup Requests => Topic started by: Louttit Fan on Sunday 20 January 13 15:32 GMT (UK)
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Hi
newish here, but find this site very interesting looking for any information on an exhall lodge, my gg grandfaather seems to have died there in 1947 but i cant find any details of this place ??
any help anybody
many thanks
kevin
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Hi
Wonder if this is the place~
'On 19 Feb. 1949 two planes collided at 4500 ft near Exhall. The wreckage fell near an old people's home, the Exhall Lodge Hospital.'
G**gled Exhall Lodge
claire
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Also this info from an old RC post
HIGH VIEW HOSPITAL, EXHALL. Foleshill Rural District Council opened an infectious diseases hospital in Exhall in 1905. There were rarely enough cases from the Foleshill area and the overflow from the City Isolation Hospital was sent to Exhall. From 1920 to 1922 it was leased as a temporary tuberculosis sanatorium and for about two years before 1930 it was unoccupied. In 1930 it was reopened by Coventry corporation as a hospital for male mental defectives. In 1942, after the disruption of Coventry's hospital services during the bombing, temporary buildings were erected at Exhall, the mental patients were transferred to St. Margaret's Hospital, Great Barr (Staffs.), and the whole establishment, renamed Exhall Lodge Hospital, was opened in 1943 for chronic sick patients
claire
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there is an inference that Exhall Lodge is short for Exhall Lodge Hospital
there are a few sites that indicate that ,one being >
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhall
the death certificate reference on freebmduk should fall under Foleshill or Alcester,
I doubt it would fall under Nuneaton but having no surname given in post I was not able to check
a handy site to use is freebmduk for other certificate references u require...
and Warwickshire has
https://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/Indexes/birthind.nsf/Search?openform
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Hi both
Yes had read these earlier and also seen this on google but wasnt sure , this just confims thing, sorry his name was william corden who died 13 feb 1947
many thanks for such fast answers amazing
Kevin
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well it always pays to check>
listed as
Deaths March 1947 (1st quarter) Corden William aged 79 at Nuneaton 9c1130
:)
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Hi fastfushion
im a little confused here does that mean he lived in nuneaton before he went to hospital, as i know up to 1920 he was living in coventry??? and his son william was living in coventry not sure if his other son was living in cov maybe he was in nuneaton
kind regards
kevin
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Nuneaton is the registration district where the certificate was registered.
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Hi
Yes i got it know, wife just said my brain needs a knock lol
Thanks for your help
kevin
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it looks like his birth certificate reference is
Birmingham 6d240 March (1st quarter) 1867
and his marriage is December (4th quarter) 1890 Aston 6d752
to Agnes Irving or Mary Roots......
but there is another marriage at Atherstone in 2nd quarter (June 1896 6d791)
to a Rhoda Mitchell or a Fanny Tomes
so one of those marriages is yours ....
:)
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Hi
I have all the birth details, he was from louth in lincolnshire and was born 14 march 1867, he married elizabeth pell in louth on 29 sept 1892 , i have a good bit on the whole family was just unsure about the exhall lodge bit, but thankyou for all your help ive been amazed on the response from you both and the speed , looks like i will have to start using this site more, as quite a lot of family was from area this area
Many Thanks
Kevin
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it is a briliant site for research cos theres so many folk around to help
good luck in your quest and dont let the wife beat u up too much
:)
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https://maps.nls.uk/view/101584789
Just at the top-right of centre of the hyperlink map is the Exhall Isolation Hospital. Closed by the late 1940s. It now has a small housing estate on the site.
Never overly used, it was intended from ~1910s to be a place for tuberculosis patients to go. It was known as The Lodge. During the mid 30s it became an 'Institution' for, well, let's be honest, at this time in history, hiding mentally ill people.
This particular area has seen huge changes in 100 years, from rural fields to one of the largest coal mines in the area, dereliction until late 1990s and now a relatively nice place again. The boundary between Nuneaton and Coventry runs through here, so you have one street with bin day on Thursday (Cov), the next it is Friday, (Nuneaton). Might answer the question of why the death certificate was not what you expected??