Hard to read, Anyone help?

[sancti]

Died in ambulance in Lodge Walk, Aberdeen (usual residence 19 Middlefield Crescent, Aberdeen)

[woiiftm]

Many Thanks for confirming the address, am I right in believing that Lodge Walk was the Police headquarters ?Was there anything else in Lodge Wak in 1952 ?

Can someone ask a moderator to remove my post with the attached cert as I wrongly attached the whole cert thinking I had attached only the address section I was querying.

Gordon

[pat s n]

Hi

Lodge Walk is a very old street that used to run from the Castlegate to Queen Street and now leads to the back of the Police Headquarters - still known to locals as Lodge Walk. I have the street directory for 1957-58 and there are a number of properties listed - the City Police Office, the Department of Agriculture for Scotland, a private householder (Mathew Stevenson) and John E Esslemont (china merchant).

In 1906, my gt uncle, Peter Gallacher, lived in a flat at 35 Lodge Walk. The majority of the closes and pends in the Castlegate area have been built over, truncated or generally lost in various so-called improvements!

By the way, it was called Lodge Walk because the entrance to the Masonic Lodge above the New Inn was there. The New Inn was built in 1755 and in 1839 it was demolished to make way for Archibald Simpson's North Bank which is now the Archibald Simpson pub.

Pat

[woiiftm]

Hello Pat

Thanks for the information on Lodge Walk.
I guess I'll now need to try and work out why he was in this area when he died, considering he was living a bit away in Middlefield Crescent at the time.

Thanks Again

Gordon

[sancti]

I would guess he was on his way to the hospital when he died in the ambulance

[woiiftm]

Am I correct in assuming from your post that Lodge Walk is on the direct route from Middlefield Place to the Hospital

[mitchell]

Lodge Walk is not on the direct route.

The Casualty Department (ER) at that time would have been at Woolmanhill...I would think that that is where the ambulance would have been heading to from Lodge Walk.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hl=en&tab=wl  if you put in Woolmanhill+Aberdeen as the search, it'll show Woolmanhill and then if you zoom in a little bit you can see Lodge Walk at the junction of Union Street and King Street

As you have the date of William's death, it might be worth checking to see if there was a mention in the local paper. The Local Studies dept. of the Central Library in Aberdeen would be able to check for you 

http://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/ACCI/web/site/Libraries/NS/Lib_LocalStudies.asp

Elaine

[pat s n]

Hi

There are (and were at that time) several hospitals in Aberdeen but I cant think of one that fits. Lodge Walk never has been a thoroughfare that an ambulance would use unless actually leaving from premises in Lodge Walk to go to a hospital. Could he have been taken ill while in the police station or some other premises in the area?

Pat

[sancti]

It's possible that he was in the area when he had his heart attack I suppose