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Hospital speldhurst KENT...

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poppycat

poppycat Report 16 Feb 2011 03:04

Help!.... anyone from Tonbridge who has an elderly G/Parent who may have a good memory may be able to name a Hospital or a place for unmarried women of the Post War years.

I have a Birth Cert giving a Place name for......When & Where Born

Says......Northfields Langton Speldhurst R D [1945]

Sub-District of Tunbridge Wells ..Reg Dist Tonbridge

Researching:
Gurney [ Hertfordshire Bedfordshire Buckinghamshire London Middlesex] Freemantle [Bishops Sutton Southsea HAMPSHIRE] Halsted/Halstead[Portsea hampshire Brighton East SUSSEX] Lower [Brighton Lewe East SUSSEX Broomfeild [Dover Maidstone Aylesford Orpington KENT] Eves [Maidstone Goudhurst KENT] Buttress [ Cork IRELAND Deal Dover Canterbury KENT] Bayden [Deal Kent] Huckstepp [Dover Wye Ashford Hinxhil Of,ChilhamKENT] Kendall/Kendal[Poplar Middlesex Walmer KENT]

Vera2010

Vera2010 Report 16 Feb 2011 04:33

I have just googled it. Looks like three separate areas of Tunbridge Wells.

Vera

Researching:
McIntosh, Bruce, Fraser, Dock, Sifton Scotland & Ireland

poppycat

poppycat Report 16 Feb 2011 06:22

Vera2010 Yes Thats what i found as well Thanks!

Researching:
Gurney [ Hertfordshire Bedfordshire Buckinghamshire London Middlesex] Freemantle [Bishops Sutton Southsea HAMPSHIRE] Halsted/Halstead[Portsea hampshire Brighton East SUSSEX] Lower [Brighton Lewe East SUSSEX Broomfeild [Dover Maidstone Aylesford Orpington KENT] Eves [Maidstone Goudhurst KENT] Buttress [ Cork IRELAND Deal Dover Canterbury KENT] Bayden [Deal Kent] Huckstepp [Dover Wye Ashford Hinxhil Of,ChilhamKENT] Kendall/Kendal[Poplar Middlesex Walmer KENT]

Chris in Sussex

Chris in Sussex Report 16 Feb 2011 09:00

I immediately thought of Pembury Hospital?

It seems to cover the areas in your post and became a hospital from the original workhouse in 1938.

Have a look here and see what you think...

http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?Tonbridge/Tonbridge.shtml

Good luck
Chris

Researching:
Avatar...My darling Dad. 1931-2019 'Take nothing on its looks, take everything on evidence. There is no better rule' Charles Dickens, Great Expectations. 'A brickwall is a problem that you haven't solved yet' Dave Annal http://media.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php/brick-walls-and-lost-ancestors/

poppycat

poppycat Report 16 Feb 2011 09:19

Chris in Sussex

Thankyou for that haven't seen that one will check it out!

Researching:
Gurney [ Hertfordshire Bedfordshire Buckinghamshire London Middlesex] Freemantle [Bishops Sutton Southsea HAMPSHIRE] Halsted/Halstead[Portsea hampshire Brighton East SUSSEX] Lower [Brighton Lewe East SUSSEX Broomfeild [Dover Maidstone Aylesford Orpington KENT] Eves [Maidstone Goudhurst KENT] Buttress [ Cork IRELAND Deal Dover Canterbury KENT] Bayden [Deal Kent] Huckstepp [Dover Wye Ashford Hinxhil Of,ChilhamKENT] Kendall/Kendal[Poplar Middlesex Walmer KENT]