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- Lying-in Hospital,
Newcastle-Upon-Tyne.
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- John Dobson designed this charitable institution for poor married pregnant
women in 1825.
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The building is till standing and the external has been restored to
its former glory
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(after it was somewhat defaced while in the hands of the BBC as its
North East Headquarters).
Newcastle's Lying-in Hospital was founded by an act of Parliament on 1st
October 1760 and built at Rosemary Lane. This hospital remained until 1826
when a new building was erected in New Bridge Street (see above). The
funds for the hospital at New Bridge St. were raised by public
subscription. However this building quickly became to small and a new one
was built at Jubilee Road. This much larger hospital (the Princess Mary
Maternity Hospital) was opened on 24th November 1923 by HRH Princess Mary.
Newcastle's hospitals were reviewed again in 1993 and the Princess Mary's
was closed. Responsibility was spread throughout existing hospitals - with
the Royal Victoria Hospital gaining a magnificent new midwifery-led unit to
compliment its already large maternity wards.
- Sarah Coxon was born here on 5 Dec 1850.
¹
- Poster advertising Swan Hunter's Shipyard
featuring the Twin-screw Turbine Passenger Ship "LEDA"
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Glen
Segell has collated reports from all over the North-East during World War
Two. A truly massive resource!!!
Go to http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists-f-j/history-sources/files/sources.html scroll down just a little way until you find
the title North-East Diaries 1939-1945 and click
on the page name with the appropriate date after it.
i.e. ne-diary.44 is a htm file that corresponds to the North-East
during 1944.
There is so much detail
here that I suggest you download these files to floppy-disk for off-line viewing!
Then use the Edit >
Find (on This Page)... or
use Ctrl+F
to find words, names or places that you are interested in.
I can no longer find the Glen
Segell site but Roy Ripley & Brian Pears' site looks good.
NORAV
- Another interesting site covering the various aspects of aviation as
it affects in the North East area of England. http://norav.50megs.com/index.html
Parish Church of St.
Andrew's, Newcastle.
- 'The oldest church in Newcastle'
- St. Andrew's Church, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, as it
stands today (1999).
George Coxon and Margaret Wilson were
married here on 15 Sep 1850.
- Stowell Street,
Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
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Stowell Street, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
1999.
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Now Newcastle's China Town's main
street.
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The Shangri-La restaurant
(with the green canopy under the white sign on
the left side of the right picture)
incorporates No. 42.
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In the left picture you can see how narrow the
back street is.
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The dark wall on the left is part of
Newcastle's ancient Town Walls which incorporates Herber and Mordon
Towers.
Martha Tremble was born in number 42
Stowel Street on 24 Jul 1886.
Geordie
Links:
- Electronic mail address
dypevag@blueyonder.co.uk
Web address
- ¹ Advert for Swan Hunter - The
People's History, Wallsend Shipyards by Andrew Clark & The
Wallsend People's Centre
- ² Lying-in Hospital, picture HO/PM/36/1,
Tyne & Wear Archives.
- * Photo of
the Lying-in hospital - Newcastle City Library, Local
Studies.
- Please contact me before knicking my
photos.
- Images may be downloaded from this site only
providing they are used for personal interest and not for commercial
use.
- If anyone objects to their photo/material being
used on this site, please let me know, it will be removed.
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Last revised: 13
January
2002.
