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Warwickshire Lookup Requests / Re: Exhall lodge
« on: Thursday 22 September 22 13:57 BST (UK) »
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??
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??