Westfield Lodge. Newcastle Upon Tyne

[chrisrob200]

Good Evening Fellow Tragics

Just today I tripped over a 1930 Electoral Roll for my Grandparents - Joseph William Thompson and Louisa Beavans Thompson (nee Bertram).

It gives their address as Westfield Lodge, Westgate Rd, Elswick or Arthurs Hill (?).

Anyway it would appears from the Roll that is was in very close proximity to the Nurses Home.

I haven't been able to find any reference to Westfield Lodge at all and presume it may have been demolished but I wonder if those with more ability than me could enlighten me.

Thanks

Chris

[Gadget]

It was probably near the old General Hospital on the north side of Westgte Road. I have a vague memory of it being in that area when I first lived in N/c in the late 60s/early 70s. The hospital is now mainly The Centre Campus for Aging

https://maps.app.goo.gl/kWNPJHDYdVwaWkqCA

Gadget

[hanes teulu]

Bottom right hand corner - also shows Ravenswood

https://maps.nls.uk/view/231275787

On the 1939 register it is next 585 Westgate Road. The map adjacent to that posted indicates Westfield House?

[hanes teulu]

Shown but not named on this 1937 map - which shows a "Nurses Home" to the east (the 1st address on the electoral roll).

https://maps.nls.uk/view/132279989

[Gadget]

I had to go to one of the newer hospitals (Freeman)  this afternoon but the staff who I spoke to didn't know of it - not surprising really given the dates.  This is where I think it is.  A larger zoom from the map that HT links to

https://maps.nls.uk/view/132279989#zoom=6&lat=2450&lon=11819&layers=BT

[Gadget]

Also zoomed in to the area showing North Elswick Hall with the Lodge at South East corner of the grounds on a 1939 map.

https://maps.nls.uk/view/132279986#zoom=5&lat=3764&lon=9408&layers=BT

Gadget

Add - I was told that the Newcastle General was originally the Union Workhouse which is to the east of the Hall on this map.

https://maps.nls.uk/view/132279986#zoom=5&lat=3502&lon=11894&layers=BT

Add2 - https://www.workhouses.org.uk/NewcastleUponTyne/

https://co-curate.ncl.ac.uk/newcastle-general-hospital/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newcastle_General_Hospital

[Gadget]

If you do an address search on the 1939 Register, Westfield Lodge is listed with a map link.

It looks like a private house rather than a nurses home though.  However, further along (west oakwood) there is a nursing home, which seems to list a lot of nurses.

[hanes teulu]

As I understand it (but I may be wrong) the Elec. Roll lists one side of the thoroughfare - which puts the lodge on the south side with the Nurses' Home, Westfield, Westfield Lodge, East Oakwood, West Oakwood. This shows E and W Oakwood

https://maps.nls.uk/view/210271183

[Gadget]

My Reply #4 shows the nurses home to the south of the road.   I didn't find mention on any of the maps and other info refer to Westfield Lodge.