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Title: Lakeside Ladies Hostel - Ashton under Lyne
Post by: hollings13 on Tuesday 29 January 19 18:30 GMT (UK)
Hello all,

I'm after your help again please.

Can anyone shed any light on where I can obtain information about Lakeside Ladies Hostel, Ashton under Lyne? I have tried via Tameside record office but they have no idea what I'm on about! My great aunt's will lists her address as Lakeside Ladies Hostel. Any help/advice you can offer will as usual be much appreciated.
Title: Re: Lakeside Ladies Hostel - Ashton under Lyne
Post by: PaulineJ on Tuesday 29 January 19 18:53 GMT (UK)
What era would this be?
Ie when did great aunt die?
Title: Re: Lakeside Ladies Hostel - Ashton under Lyne
Post by: hollings13 on Wednesday 30 January 19 07:38 GMT (UK)
PaulineJ

Thanks for your reply. Great Aunt died 17 February 1959.
Title: Re: Lakeside Ladies Hostel - Ashton under Lyne
Post by: chris_49 on Wednesday 30 January 19 08:06 GMT (UK)
The only lake worthy of the name in Ashton is the Boating Lake which is next to Tameside General Hospital, according to OS maps available on Bing maps, and viewable on Bird's Eye there. Lakeside might have been part of that.

OTOH there is a Lakeside Avenue in Ashton on the other side of town - nowhere near a lake thouigh. Ordinary houses (council-house type) that might have been built arouund 1959.......
Title: Re: Lakeside Ladies Hostel - Ashton under Lyne
Post by: ShaunJ on Wednesday 30 January 19 08:40 GMT (UK)
A search in Google Books brings up this snippet from a Lancs County Council meeting in 1963:

Vacation of Lakeside, Ashton-under-Lyne. Under the 10-year programme approved last year, your Committee envisaged the vacation of Lakeside, Ashton-under-Lyne in two stages—the female accommodation when the homes included in the ...
Title: Re: Lakeside Ladies Hostel - Ashton under Lyne
Post by: ShaunJ on Wednesday 30 January 19 08:43 GMT (UK)
Residential Accommodation. Accommodation is provided at Lakeside, Ashton-under-
Lyne, for 83 males and 65 females.....

A report from 1961 https://archive.org/stream/b29718302/b29718302_djvu.txt
Title: Re: Lakeside Ladies Hostel - Ashton under Lyne
Post by: chris_49 on Wednesday 30 January 19 09:17 GMT (UK)
Quote from: ShaunJ on Wednesday 30 January 19 08:43 GMT (UK)
Residential Accommodation. Accommodation is provided at Lakeside, Ashton-under-
Lyne, for 83 males and 65 females.....

A report from 1961 https://archive.org/stream/b29718302/b29718302_djvu.txt

Interesting. So if new (Aged persons?) homes were being built, releasing Lakeside to the "hospital management committee" that implies that Lakeside was sited near the hospital. Interesting to read that the Consultant Geriatrician refers people admitted to the Hospital to Lakeside. All found by searching for Lakeside on the above document.
Title: Re: Lakeside Ladies Hostel - Ashton under Lyne
Post by: ShaunJ on Wednesday 30 January 19 09:22 GMT (UK)
If it was next to Lake Hospital, "Lakeside" would make sense !
Title: Re: Lakeside Ladies Hostel - Ashton under Lyne
Post by: hollings13 on Wednesday 30 January 19 09:46 GMT (UK)
Thank you Chris, Shaun J and everyone who has answered my post. Your help is very much appreciated.