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Lancashire / Re: Crossley Hospital, Ancoats, Manchester
« on: Monday 17 August 15 12:45 BST (UK) »
Well I have just found this site - I was looking for Crossley Nursing Home off Mitchell Street , Ancoats.
I was - supposedly born there in July 1941,- My mother was married to my dad(who was in the RAF)
at a church in Bexley Heath, Kent., in June 1940. The location (Kent) is interesting because my mother had Aunts in Plumstead and Gravesend, and my dad was stationed in camp in Hertfordshire. My grandmother was from Woolich .
My mother was born in Hulme in 1919 as her mother and father moved up to Manchester in early 1919.
Unfortunately , I do not have my birth certificate , and my mother died in 1992. It is amazing how much knowledge your parents had but as a child growing up, you never asked the questions that you now want answers too.
The only facts(?) I have is that my mother told me I was born at Crossley Nursing Home , off Mitchell Street, in Ancoats and I always thought that it was run by Catholic nurses , mainly because my dad was Catholic. About 10 years ago I drove down to Ancoats after seeing an old map of the area , I think , in the Manchester Evening News.
I could not find Crossley Nursing Home - because it must have been demolished - but interestingly
I came accross a pub called The Mitchell Arms , and nearby was some apartments called
Crossley Court.
I do not know if it was a hospital in 1941 but I assume it had a maternity wing.
That's it .
I was - supposedly born there in July 1941,- My mother was married to my dad(who was in the RAF)
at a church in Bexley Heath, Kent., in June 1940. The location (Kent) is interesting because my mother had Aunts in Plumstead and Gravesend, and my dad was stationed in camp in Hertfordshire. My grandmother was from Woolich .
My mother was born in Hulme in 1919 as her mother and father moved up to Manchester in early 1919.
Unfortunately , I do not have my birth certificate , and my mother died in 1992. It is amazing how much knowledge your parents had but as a child growing up, you never asked the questions that you now want answers too.
The only facts(?) I have is that my mother told me I was born at Crossley Nursing Home , off Mitchell Street, in Ancoats and I always thought that it was run by Catholic nurses , mainly because my dad was Catholic. About 10 years ago I drove down to Ancoats after seeing an old map of the area , I think , in the Manchester Evening News.
I could not find Crossley Nursing Home - because it must have been demolished - but interestingly
I came accross a pub called The Mitchell Arms , and nearby was some apartments called
Crossley Court.
I do not know if it was a hospital in 1941 but I assume it had a maternity wing.
That's it .