Now I thought I had found Blackheath Hospital, but alas it is not so.
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| Nurses, Starting, Green, Leadbetter & Lines, May 1931 |
It was only opened in 1984, having had a varied history including as a private residency, a school, and old people’s home and even during the Second World War as a fire station.*
And so it cannot be the one where a young Jean Lines trained in 1931.
I must admit I doubted that it would be that easy to find, more so because many of the ways of locating the place are denied to me.
So while I have maps and street directories of Blackheath they do not stretch to the 1930s.
All I have so far is an entry in the 1932 electoral register for Jean Lines who was living at 32 St John’s Park, along with five other women.
This is all the more frustrating given that I have quite a few pictures of Ms. Lines and other members of the family, which come from the family collection of Frances Jones.**
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| Jean Lines left of centre |
And of these snaps there are three of Jean Lines and a caption which links her to a hospital in Blackheath where she was training to be a nurse.
Of course, if I were dealing with Greater Manchester I would be confident that I could track it and her down, but alas Blackheath is a long way from where I live.
And my hospital may not even have been called Blackheath Hospital, but it is or was out there in 1931.
That said there will be someone who knows, and can point me in the right direction, which will add to what I know of this young woman.
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| Jean Lines (training at Blackheath) |
We shall see.
Location; Blackheath
Pictures; from the family collection of Frances Jones
*Paradise Tree Care, https://treesurgeonsblackheath.co.uk/blackheath-se3-places-of-interest-hospital-pubs-bars-and-the-royal-standard/
**Stories behind the pictures ………https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.com/2022/06/stories-behind-pictures.html
You need to find Neil Rhind's books about Blackheath - they are an exhaustive building by building history, The Blackheath and Charlto hospital above is - I think - now part of a care home. There was also a hospital on the Lewisham side of Blackheath - was it St.John's??
ReplyDeleteI am would like to attach a picture of the plaque which was on the Shooters Hill hospital building with its history - but it is a bit hidde benind trees. But look at Neil Rhinds book o Blackheath and its Environs and his other books - every Blackheath building is listed
ReplyDeleteShooters Hill would be Woolwich, not Blackheath.
ReplyDeleteBut there was a hospital on the east side of Lewisham Hill, up the slopes to the heath. South of Morden Hill. Lots of newish houses there now.