Harborough Magna. St Mary's Hospital
St Mary's Hospital, Harborough Magna. An isolation hospital was erected at Harborough Magna in 1912 by the Rugby Joint Hospital Board. Between 1935 and 1938 it was practically rebuilt and comprised of the administration block, cubicle ward block and diphtheria and scarlet fever ward. In 1940 there were sixty eight beds. In 1948 it became a maternity hospital. 1954
See Kelly's Directory of Warwickshire - 1941.
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I was born here on 16th June 1967
I was born there 31/12/1954
I was born there in 1972
I was born here at st marys on 16 May 1961 a glorious May morning as my Mother remembers
I was born here at 11.50am Saturday 12 September 1953. My mother remembers that it was windy and wet and the soundtrack of the film “Limelight” with Charlie Chaplain, Claire Bloom, Buster Keaton and Sydney Chaplain was playing on the radio.
I was born there on Thursday 30th August 1973 even though we lived near Lutterworth, which at that time was in the county boundary of Warwickshire and is now Leicestershire.
It is now a care home, with artists’ studios attached.
I was born there in the late 1940s
I was not born there! But I was sent there with scarlet fever for several weeks as a 10-year-old at the beginning of 1948, while it was still an isolation hospital. I did not realise that it had become a maternity hospital, so it is possible that I was one of the last patients in the scarlet fever ward.
I was born here 28th March 1951. My mother remembers there was a light fall of snow.
I was born here in 1955. On 14th January. My mother told me that the Irish midwife insisted on holding up the birth until just after midnight so I would not be born on the 13th, so it was just 4 minutes into the day that I emerged 🙂
I was born here in 1962 on the 7th of July.
I was born here on a snowy March in the early 1970s
1.05pm on 24 May 1954
I was born at St Mary’s in 1982. I think this was the last year or two it remained as a maternity hospital.
I was born there on the 31st March 1956. Just made it, didn’t want to be an April fool’s baby
I was born here in September 1964
I was born here in 1964. My Mum was 40. They wondered why I cried continuously and then realised that neither Mum or the nurses were feeding me, as Mum was dry and thought the nurses were feeding me and the nurses thought that Mum was feeding me. The crying stopped when they fed me.
I was born here in the 1970s. I now drive passed it twice a day to work and back and often wonder if my life will go full circle at St Mary’s!
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