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I’ve posted various messages on Facebook but failed to get any response.
I’m trying to contacted a mate from the 70’s who was in the medical branch and also in Gibraltar with me “John Mclaren”
Anyone who knows where he ended up or how to contact him please let me know via the forum or Facebook.
It would be good to get in touch with him again, maybe even get him to one of the reunions down in Plymouth.
I had heard that he may have crossed the bar ? But have nothing to confirm this.
I had heard that he may have crossed the bar ? But have nothing to confirm this.
Joe Roulstone
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I am decluttering my house to move from Sussex back to Devon and found an original script from the Pantomine 'RNH PRESENTS ALADDIN' adapted by John Callow by kind permission of Surgeon Rear Admiral G A Binns QHS. It's early 1970s. I've also got 'characters in order of appearance'. If anyone who was in the pantomime would like this, I am more than happy to 'gift' it. I was not a nurse but a civil servant, working firstly for JBD in surgical department at the back of theatres, and then we moved to top floor below Orthopaedics to a bespoke OPD. Patricia (Floyd) Welsh
ReplyDeleteHi Patricia, I can not remember if I ever got back to you, I am sorry if I did not, how rude of me.
ReplyDeleteI did post this on our FB site and various others but never had any replies to my knowledge.
Did anyone ever contact you ?
I know its late but if you still have the script I will take it off your hands and make it available for the RNH Group to download as required.
Yours Joe Roulstone.
Hello!! I have stumbled across this website whilst I am researching the history of my office block for my degree! I work in Lyster Court which I believe was formerly known as Block H or possibly Gibraltor.
ReplyDeleteCan anyone confirm what this ward was used for and does anyone have any images inside or out please!
I am studying Building Surveying and I need to research the heritage and the changes over time! Its an incredible building and would appreciate any help
My email address is helenaprocter@googlemail.com
Thankyou in advance
H block in the 70s consisted of H1 (ground floor) mental health. H2 and H3 were both medical wards.
DeleteBlock letters and their names, from 1924 onwards.
DeleteA, Dominica; B, Ushant; C, Algiers; D, La Hogue; E, Johannesburg; F, Nile; G, St Vincent; H, Gibraltar; I, Basque Roads; and J, San Domingo, and K was just left as K Block.
Any ideas when the 2023 reunion pictures will be posted?
ReplyDeleteHi! I hope that this is okay to post here, I am currently carrying out my Masters dissertation at the University of Exeter, on the Navy sailors that were buried at Derry's Cross. I believe that they were excavated from the cemetery that was linked to the Royal Naval Hospital at Stonehouse during the Georgian Period. I believe that 'Up the Creek: Royal Naval Hospital Stonehouse" by Graham Evans, will provide me with some very important contextual information. I haven't been able to find a copy anywhere and I was hoping someone would be able to help point me in the right direction. Thank you in advance!
ReplyDeleteHi Josie, I'm sure in due course Sinbad Edwards will be in touch as he has a copy of Taff Evans's book 'Up The Creek' . In the mean time extracts of his book were downloaded by Sinbad after Taff's death. If you Google 'up the Creek and look for the website 'jalbum' with an image of a frog. Click on it you should see Sinbads comments then underneath extracts from the book. Hope this works if not I'm sure someone will be in touch as many books were purchased by colleagues. Regards Kev.
ReplyDeleteHi Kev, that's great, I'll take a look. Thanks so much!
DeleteThis is a link on our Blog to a project ( Not Complete yet ) where I was slowly uploading the book. Its may help but as I say, only half done so far.
ReplyDeletehttps://gallery.jalbum.net/en/browse/user/album/1988125
Hi Joe, that's great thank you!. I'll take a look.
DeleteSTOKE Military Hospital
ReplyDeleteThe facility, which was sited on the north side of Stonehouse Creek, was designed for use by the British Army and styled to match the Royal Naval Hospital on the south side of the creek. It was built using Napoleonic prisoners of war, who were housed in prison ships on the Hamoaze,[1] and was completed in 1797.[2] It was used extensively during the Crimean War and the Second Boer War and then again in the First World War and Second World War.[3] The Grade II listed building consists of four 3 storey square ward blocks made of limestone plus an administration building. The ward blocks are laid out in a line, joined by an arched colonnade with a balcony facing what is now the school playing fields. [4] Stonehouse creek originally allowed ships to disembark patients directly to the hospital but was filled in during the 1960s.[5]
At the end of the Second World War, the hospital was decommissioned and Tamar High School and Devonport High School for Boys, which had both returned from wartime evacuation, moved into the former military hospital.[6] Each school occupied two of the four main blocks of the original hospital, Devonport High School the easternmost blocks plus the administration building. After Tamar High School closed in 1989,[7] Devonport High School for Boys, expanded to occupy the whole site.[8]
I think the graveyard was used for both hospitals and is now under the Football Fields of the School ( Stoke Military Hospital )
ReplyDeletePS. Extract above taken from WIKI
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