Comments on: Crinolines & Cholera

By: Miklos Kiss

Miklos Kiss — Sat, 29 Feb 2020 15:08:57 +0000

I love this page and have looked at it often. It’s a great resource. Mildmay is currently fighting for its life. Can I use some of your text and photos to enhance our Twitter and Facebook? We have plenty of material in our archive but it is offsite and I’m out of the office too, being a bit unwell. It would be really helpful.

By: Jean Freaney

Jean Freaney — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 10:54:09 +0000

I was born in Mildmay Hospital in October 1940.. My Dad was fighting in the war and my Mum, Nan and Grandad were bombed out of their home..My Mum gave birth to me and my Nan and Grandad were able to stay at the Mildmay until they, together with my Mum and me were able to find somewhere to stay..
Wish my Mum and grandparents were still here to see this great website..

By: BETTY TELFORD

BETTY TELFORD — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 17:21:46 +0000

I still have my little red morocco bound Bible given for good attendance at the Mildmay

Mission Sunday School. I was born in September 1933.

One place the family sheltered during the War was in a brick built

street shelter on the corner of Elwin Street and during the night I fell out of a top bunk onto

the concrete floor and was taken (I think during an air raid) to the Mildmay hospital and they stitched me up – I still have the scar where they did a very neat job and I was able to go

straight back home. However during the air raid in which a German bomb went down the air shaft in the deep shelter in the old Columbia Market (pictures exist to document it) that was on my 7th birthday, I had to stay home that night as I had pneumonia. The explosion was dreadful and many lives were lost. How very brave all those nurses and doctors, firemen and ambulance workers and so many others were and what a superb service at the Mildmay and other local hospitals. Eileen is my younger sister (one of twins) born 1946 and our mother died in the Mildmay, they gave her wonderful care in 1964.. I used to buy her flowers in the Florist’s shop shown in one of the pictures. Thank you for this web site.

Betty Telford (Madley, Hereford)

By: Eileen Withrington

Eileen Withrington — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 12:51:13 +0000

Thanks Lin for this illuminating history, and such wonderful old photos. I also remember being treated at the Mildmay as a child but cannot recall why! Years ago I read the Victorian novel “A Child of the Jago” which is based in the Old Nichol and describes the woeful conditions the local poor had to endure. God bless those brave ministering Angels!

By: Roger Carr

Roger Carr — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 15:35:25 +0000

God bless Elizabeth Taylor for standing up for and standing out for gay men during the AIDS crisis . . . . and hospice nursing staff who worked under the hardest conditions.

By: Linda Ruby.

Linda Ruby. — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 10:43:18 +0000

Mildmay is an amazing place and articles like this are very much appreciated.

By: Beryl Happe

Beryl Happe — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 10:04:59 +0000

Wonderful again Lin, many moons ago I had to have some investigations done at the Mildmay, the X ray table I was fixed to was moving into various positions as needed, and every time it stopped there was a text to read painted on the wall, in the context of.. Jesus loves you.. it was a lovely touch, I have never forgotten it.

By: Achim

Achim — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 08:47:09 +0000

A very touching story. And I couldn’t help but think of the ebola problem…

Love & Peace
ACHIM

By: Caroline Bottomley

Caroline Bottomley — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 08:33:16 +0000

My parents worked as GP and nurse at a local small ‘cottage’ hospital. There was a great degree of camaraderie.

By: Caroline Bottomley

Caroline Bottomley — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 08:31:35 +0000

And forgot about the fashion for dungarees undone on one side. Very Bananarama