sanitorium records lancaster.

[mijaf]

I have only just discovered this, and would like to know if anyone knows of a sanatorium in Lancaster that took patients from WW1 soldiers, either wounded or having TB etc. I am looking for info on a soldier who is shown to have died in a lancaster sanatorium in October 1920

[Barbara.H]

I came across this newspaper cutting while browsing eBay today, and remembered this thread
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01jw8/

Dated 1927, does not give the newspaper it was from but mentions the name William Jackson as a rescuer. Victims of the flood were Joseph Gregg, Reginald Hall and Katherine Knowles.
Hope this helps someone

  Barbara

[MadaboutRoses1883]

Thankyou  Barbara H for this link.
Although it doesn't mention my gr grandfather, I know he helped rescue some patients from that flood as he lived very near to it on the Quay, I did however actually know William Jackson! Obviously he was an old man into his 80's or even 9o's when I knew him from 1971 (and still working!) My husband was his apprentice .
He was known as Billy Jackson and was a Master Butcher/Slaughterman, and was delivering meat (tied to the crossbar of his bike) at the time of the floods to the 3 pubs that were then down on the Quay.
Billy never usually talked about this heroic act, but that info was imparted to us by Billy one night when we had met him in a pub along the Quay, when he had had a few bevvies.
He was a gracious old gentleman, who always wore a rose in his buttonhole and kissed a ladies hand when he met her.