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From: "Jan" <>
Subject: Re: [STS] West Bromwich Union Workhouse
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 21:59:30 -0000


Dear Tony
Yes, you're absolutely right - I've been there for a look and as soon as
something ..... anything ..... opens, I'll be there to question them. I
tried West Brom library today but it was shut!!
If you could send the scan I will try to match it when I go tomorrow
As soon as it opens I'll be bombarding them with questions. It takes me
about 20 minutes to get there from where I live.
I'm taking my camera to photograph Hallam Hospital which as you say is on
Hallam Road, and if there are any oldish looking buildings at Sandwell
District Hosp then I'll photograph them aswell, just so I get everything
ready for when the library opens.
2 hours to Millenium!!
All the best
Jan
PS Do you know any history of Edward Street Hospital, that was the old
District Hospital? or should I just tie the librarian in knots?
----- Original Message -----
From: <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, December 31, 1999 8:39 PM
Subject: Re: [STS] West Bromwich Union Workhouse


> Mark,
> As a limited edition, I cannot make the offer open to everyone otherwise,
> well you can imagine the financial consequences, I will send over the next
> few days an attachment which I hope will prove to you, Bryan and Jan. That
> NOT ALL OF THE FORMER HOSPITAL COMPLEX WAS DESTROYED. I'm not absolutely
sure
> of the former function of this part of the structure BUT I was told during
a
> telephone call this morning that it had been part of the maternity unit.
> Is there no one on this list (I live in Wales) who could pop round to
speak
> to the current hospital administrators in Y2K? No point doing immediately,
> they are all probably busy waiting for the first second millennium birth!!
>
> The only thing that bothers me is that it has the appearance of a chapel,
an
> appropriate setting for a birth at this time! Even so the windows in
> appearance are nothing like chapel windows.
>
> Tony C.
>
>
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