hillcrest hospital

[pensionerpaul]

are there any records of deaths at hillcrest hospital swain st. leicester. Looking for leah woods?possibly in 1968.
paul

[Danone]

  :)Hi
im doing the same place my mothers gran died there mrs deacon and i asked a freimd to see what he could find and he found a couple of blackand white photos of it but didnt find any records i would like find them to
Danone

[Finley 1]

Well its definitely gone now... Its some kind of religious centre... or similar...

My great Aunt died there bless her -- that was in 1957.. she had a fall broke her leg / hip and ended up with pneumonia.. God bless Auntie Lizzie.. xxx

xin

It was generally thought of as not a very nice place by my family?

[pensionerpaul]

hi, zin, I visited Hill Crest hospital several times.Iwas in my 20's then, and visited an aunt. It was an awful place and i felt the patients were treated like animals. My aunt was almost force fed.It was a good thing when they closed it.
Bless aunty LEAH

[pensionerpaul]

SORRY Xin

[Finley 1]

thanks for that Paul zin or xin not a problem...

But yes  dreadful place

xin 

[Lauramuppet]

Hi

I also had a relative die at Hillcrest Hospital in 1962 - she died of Breast Cancer (We were always told it was an asylum of sorts - family stories etc). So I did a little bit of research, although there is not that much out there.

Hillcrest was formed in the buildings of what was the Leicester Union Workhouse and it was the main geriatric unit in Leicester until it closed in 1974. It was demolished in 1977. The site is now a school, Moat Community College.

My mother works within the NHS in Leicester and did a little digging with the records office within the trust and found out that they only keep a sampling of records from Hillcrest, and even then they won't be available until the 100 yrs is up.

There are minutes available from various meetings from Hillcrest Hospital at the records office in Wigston, but I don't think they would tell us much about individual people, just about the hospital.

Laura

[Finley 1]

thanks for that information Laura...

xin

[Danone]

  :)Hi alll
many thanks for letting me know about hillcrest .the letter that my mums gran sent her a long time isnt very readable her writing wasnt good im  not surprised by what i have seen you say about the place they must have been very bad times in there im sorry to see what one of the people said about their relative being in there .i still try and read the letter she sent i have a photo of the out side and  one of  the inside a freind sent me ,at least the hospitals we have today are somewhat better if any one knew of mrs deacon they would like to let me know .there is a post mark but some of its not very clear 15th of may 19 ? ,i can see what you meant the correrdors looked really dark and no one around that must have been very frighting
any thanks for the information
Danone