Guest Touche Posted June 19, 2009 Share Posted June 19, 2009 Hello, My grandfather died apparently in a hospital/hospice on Lydgate Lane. 'Once you went to Lydgate Lane you never go home' was the bleak expression used once admitted. This would have been around 1940ish. It was specifically for chest and lung diseases. Can anyone give me a link to map of this area so that I can look for likely premises. It is an old relative who told me whose memory is faded. Could he be thinking of the Thornbury Hospital? Sorry the details are so vague but that's all that I was given to work on. Many thanks for looking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike142sl Posted June 19, 2009 Share Posted June 19, 2009 I'm not aware of a hospital on Lydgate Lane, the school was used during WW1 but for soldiers rather than chest & lung issues. It sounds more like the isolation hospital at Lodge Moor which was at the end of Crimicar Lane nr Redmires Rd just a bit further up the road from Crosspool and Lydgate Lane - unless there is another Lydgate Lane? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Touche Posted June 19, 2009 Share Posted June 19, 2009 Thanks for replying. Come to think of it, he did say Lodge Moor to begin with, then said 'no, it was Lydgate Lane etc', so maybe he is muddled and meant Lodge Moor to begin with. Did it specialise in chest and lung disease? I don't know. I'll see if I can try again. Thank you mike142sl, appreciate it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vox Posted June 20, 2009 Share Posted June 20, 2009 Perhapse the expression was slightly miss-quoted and could have been "once you went up Lydgate Lane --- " Lydgate Lane being the beginning of the direct route to Lodge Moor Isolation Hospital. - just a thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tsavo Posted June 20, 2009 Share Posted June 20, 2009 Lodge Moor was Sheffield's isolation hospital and would have been used for TB and other contageous diseases. I remember visiting my grandmother there when she had pneomonia. We stood in a couple of feet of snow, outside the ward windows. Freezing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gramps Posted June 21, 2009 Share Posted June 21, 2009 I was in Lodge Moor with measles for a couple of weeks. Quite a trial for a six-year-old. No visitors and some of the nurses seemed to have an intense dislike of children :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike142sl Posted June 21, 2009 Share Posted June 21, 2009 There were two hospitals at Lodge Moor. The isolation hospital was at the end of Crimicar Lane. The other was just a bit further along Redmires Rd and specialised in spinal injuries during the 60s and 70s. Not sure what it specialised in before that if at all anything different. This is a view from Blackbrook Rd lookinf towards Crimicar Lane, taken in the early 60s the isolation hospital is just off shot on the right in the distance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Touche Posted June 21, 2009 Share Posted June 21, 2009 Thank you for your input, very interesting. However, I now have another spanner to throw into the works! It wasn't Lydgate Lane apparently, it was Crimicar Lane, about 1942. My grandfather was in the army, stationed in Elgin, Scotland. Whether he was sent home/discharged on grounds of ill health I'm not sure. I realise this is even closer to Lodge Moor - was there an annexe for chest/lung disease? It could be after all Lodge Moor. I'll try for more detail soon. Thanks for your help everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike142sl Posted June 22, 2009 Share Posted June 22, 2009 It is a spanner as it was more likely that he would have been sent to Lodge Moor rather than Crimicar Lane. The Crimicar Lane Hospital was known as the Fever Hospital and there are plenty of pictures of it on Picture Sheffield. The gates in this one are still there. Picture Sheffield link [link updated 10 May 2020] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Touche Posted June 22, 2009 Share Posted June 22, 2009 I'll try him again, though he is old and his memory is fading. I do rather think it to be Lodge Moor personally. Are there any records of Lodge Moor available anywhere? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike142sl Posted June 22, 2009 Share Posted June 22, 2009 There must be some records somewhere within the health authority, but where? The only snippets I can recall off hand about the place are that in December 1955 an American Jet crashed into it killing one person, and in 1977 the BBC made a documentary about the last patient to be confined to an Iron Lung who I think was called Dennis Atkin and had been there nearly 30 years. I think the documentary was called 'The Man in the Iron Lung' and he had his own 'house' built for him in the grounds next to Lodge Moor Rd where he had a view, albeit via a mirror, out over the fields where he could watch the girls on their horses ??? I remember thinking it was amazing that the BBC had made a film in Lodge Moor where I lived. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Touche Posted June 23, 2009 Share Posted June 23, 2009 I checked yesterday. It seems there is a one hundred year rule that applies. They can be seen under certain conditions but Family History isn't one of them. It's going to be a long wait!! The BBC made quite a few films in Sheffield in the 70s. They did a 'play for today', I think, at Ashleigh School. Perhaps it was at the time that the Council was promoting Sheffield under the banner of 'City on the Move'. Just a thought. Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tiz Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 regarding lodge moor hospital i was in there as a child,the day after i came out a jet crashed in it,can you remember ? http://www.chrishobbs.com/lodgemoor1955.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Gregory Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 I spent my fourth birthday in 1949 in Lodgemoor Hospital with Scarlet Fever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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