Leamington Spa. Nurses and patients
Patients and nurses inside, possibly The Home for Incurables (later The Midland Counties Home), Leamington Spa. 1900s
IMAGE LOCATION: (Warwickshire County Record Office)
Reference: PH, 352/111/8, img: 4775
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My great great grandfather, Eli Turner was an ‘inmate’, as they were called here. The home was granted 5 shillings a week for his upkeep by the the Warwick Board of Guardians (about £112 p/w in 2020). Eli was named after his father, a Warwick man, who at the age of 24 went to New York to enlist in the American Civil War! He survived & went on to have seven children with Jane Bonehill. Three of their boys had the same condition, listed as ‘cripple’ (polio?) and died young. Eli junior died at this home aged 32 in 1910. His father outlived him and died aged 93 in 1930!
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