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Hello, could anyone tell me what Thomas Taylor Homes in Stannington was please. My Dads grandad was in this home and we are trying to establish was kind it was. He was in there around 1948 where he died aged 61.

Many Thanks
Teresa.

well if you look at this website you will see that they were luxury homes

Taylor Thomas Custom Homes
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Hello Ann, I was led to believe that this kind of home was maybe a mental hospital, it was in 1948 and my dad can remember going to visit his grandad when he was only about 5 years of age and his grandad telling him to get him out of there. Not long afterwards he died.

So i was just wanting to check that it was a mental home really. i don't think it would have been a luxury home back then.lol!.

I will check the website anyway, thanks for replying.

Thanks Paula, i have had a look at this website, and it wa some kind of hospital, either a war hospital or a mental hospital. i think i am going to delve a bit deeper on this one.

By the way Stannington is in Northumberland

Thanks again
Teresa

obviously not the one I posted then

How about this

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Subject: [NMB] THOMAS TAYLOR HOMES, STANNINGTON Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 12:41:23 + 0000 (GMT). has anyone on the list have access to REF: NRO 2965/1 REGISTER ...

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Wansbeck Committee





The Wansbeck Hospital Management Committee administers the following Hospitals:

Morpeth Cottage Hospital
South Road, Morpeth, Northumberland

Ashington Hospital
West View, Ashington, Northumberland

Thomas Knight Memorial Hospital
Beaconsfield Street, Blyth, Northumberland

Ashington Isolation Hospital
The Hirst, Ashington, Northumberland

Morpeth Infectious Diseases Hospital
The Common, Morpeth, Northumberland

Phillipsons Childrens Sanatorium
Stannington, Clifton, Morpeth, Northumberland

T.B. Clinic
78, Midleton Street, Blyth, Northumberland

T.B. Clinic
23, Lintonville Terrace, Ashington, Northumberland

V.D. Clinic
22, Stanley Street, Blyth, Northumberland

In addition to the above Hospitals the Management Committee has arrangements for the use of 100 beds at Thomas Taylor Homes, Shields Road, Stannington, Morpeth, Northumberland.


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if you go on this site there is a lengthy list of residents

Thanks very much Ann i will go and search now. I am beginning to wonder whether he did have T.B. as there seems to be a lot of T.B clinics around that time.

There is a lot of info about this on here:

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

Dea x

Thanks Dea, i am having trouble getting onto that site at the moment. but i will keep trying.

Ann I am still trying to get onto the site to look at the residents listings. Will keep you updated, thanks again.

The Thomas Taylor homes were homes for old people - a charity foundation. I don't know of any special medical angles such as TB or mental homes. They were in large grounds which also had the Mona Taylor Homes which were a maternity home. The maternity home closed some time ago - the old people's home is closed (and redeveloped for housing) but it was still open in the late eighties (I called there by mistake doing market research!)

Ann of GG - I take it your list of hospitals came from something like a local history pamphlet? It's very outdated!

Elizabeth would this have been the case back in 1948 ?

I should think so - I got the impression they had been there forever. But I'm not the native here, my OH is and I'll check with him when I can

Ok thanks.

ooooer!!! got it off Google!!

He surfaced from his computer earlier than I expected! He says they were definitely open in 1948 - he has the impression that they were built sometime between 1918 and 1939.

Thank you Elizabeth i will look into this further.

Ann - just to put on record - I was surprised when you quoted Google, but checked it out. So I did a bit of rummaging thinking I must owe you an apology! But I have been through telephone directories and yellow pages of hospitals and nursing homes and residential homes and I can't find the Thomas Taylor Homes anywhere current. I suppose it is possible that before the site was sold the Hospital service did have access to its facilities - and that somehow this has never got off the record book.

It is I suppose just possible that the Wansbeck hospital might know where the archives of the Home are held. The Woodhorn museum in Ashington now holds the Northumberland County records, it took a long time to disentangle them from the Newcastle records when they were separated in the 1970s!