“having my tonsils out” ……….. rare pictures of Manchester Royal Infirmary

Manchester Royal Infirmary has served the city’s population well, since it was opened in 1752.

And according to these picture postcards were still doing so in 1905, when Gert wrote to her friend that she was “having my tonsils out on Thursday night at 7 o’ clock”, and “think of me”.

Her only concern was that her friend might not get the postcard “as I have forgotten when you said you were going away”.

And as it was the card was forwarded on from Lloyd Street, Greenheys to Glen Esk Westby Road, St Anne’s on Sea.

Just what her friend thought of the news is lost, but the house is still there on Lloyd Street.

That said the MRI had just five more years on its site in Piccadilly, and having closed, was demolished by the April of 1910.

All of which brings me to the second postcard, which shows the final stages of its demolition.

Now David Harrop who owns both picture postcards, comments that he has “not come across many cards showing the MRI being knocked down".

So that is a first for the blog.

Location; Manchester

Pictures; Manchester Royal Infirmary, circa 1905, and 1910, courtesy of David Harrop