Convalescent Homes in Putney

[Dever Mayfly]

I know of the Ex-Serveman's Welfare Home on Putney Hill, which became Cobat Stress and the Perkins Bull Convalescent Home on Putney Heath run by a Canadian couple, but does anyone know of any other WWI convalescent home in the Putney/Wimbledon area?

[DavidOwen]

I have found this? http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N13900058

Some detail but nothing ww1 here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atkinson_Morley_Hospital and here https://ezitis.myzen.co.uk/atkinsonmorley.html

I don't know London well enough but the LLT has this list http://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/soldiers/a-soldiers-life-1914-1918/the-evacuation-chain-for-wounded-and-sick-soldiers/military-hospitals-in-the-british-isles-1914-1918/

Regards

David

 

[David Filsell]

Just a thought. Could another be the hospital once named something like the Home for Incurables now, obviously, gently, renamed on the Putney Wandsworth?

Edited 3 November , 2018 by David Filsell

[Dever Mayfly]

1 hour ago, David Filsell said:

Just a thought. Could anothevother be the hospital once named something like the Home for Incurables now, obviously, gently, renamed on the Putney Wandsworth border be another?

The Royal Hospital and Home for Incurables was established on Putney Hill in 1863 to look after those in a persistent vegetative state, either by birth or by accident, so it would have looked after WWI casualties.

[David Filsell]

 

I wonder what happened to the incureables?

Edited 2 November , 2018 by David Filsell

[Dever Mayfly]

I grew up 500 yards from the RHHI.  The hospital had a very high wall and we rarely saw the patients.  It is much better now all opened up and focused on neuro-disability care. Thanks for the LLT list; nothing more in Putney, but four in Roehampton which borders Putney Heath.

[David Filsell]

the Roehamton hospirtal,may have been that which Bader attended for limb fitting which I belie operated in a similar capacity in WW 1.@

[seaJane]

If so, St Mary's Roehampton, still in the forefront of prosthesis development when I shared an office with a bioengineering professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, UCL in the mid 80s.