Wigan Album

It was actually a Geriatric Daycare Centre, just before it closed. We,(ambulance service) used to take the old dears into there every morning, & deliver them back home in the afternoon, about teatime. It was a lovely,cosy,friendly place for them to spend their day. No pre-cooked meals, they had their own cook onsite, serving good jackbit.
A good relief for their families for a few hours of the day.

Good picture Fred. I remember it well.

Thanks for that photo Fred. I don't remember the hospital but remember that my brother Ian was in there back in the 50's (?) We didn't have a phone at Holland Moor & your Mum & Dad kept an eye on what was going on. Is that right ?

Yes, Helen, The patients couldn't come to the gates, so we passed stuff through to them.I recall Tommy Spencer giving me stuff for his brother Bill, who was in there during the war years. Bill later became a reader at St. George's and a Head Teacher at Highfield Junior School.Ian sent me a pic that he had taken whilst in there, but it got lost when a main drive was corrupted and I hadn't saved it anywhere.

I was brought up in Queen ST. not far up Billinge Rd. from the Hospital, i remember it. Never thought i would marry Les, his mother was in there with T B in the late 40s i think it would be.

I was brought up in Queen Street Highfield also and I remember when I walked with Highfield we would stop and sing... I visited Pemberton Hospital several times as my grandma Parkinson died in there....

We live in land which was bought by the hospital, at the back we keep on digging up a lot of large stones (looked like thye were used in wall construction), seeing the Photo is great.

my granddad, (Giles Lowe) was a patient in this hospital(would that have been during the war)? He was a T.B. patient having contracted the desease in India. My grandmother had a box of photos of him when he was a patient there. One day when she had the decorators in, they got accidentally thrown out. she was heart-broken. I was only a young girl in the fifties, when this happened,but I cried with her. How sad, she didn't have many other pictures of him. Luckily I have a beautiful one of them both when they were younger which I treasure but I wish with all my heart that I had that box full of all the others. some of them would be up on this site.

My mother worked there in the sixties as a domestic every week she would fetch one of the old ladies in a wheelchair across the road for her tea she had no family and my mum took a shine to her she was a beautiful hand sewer when I was expecting my first baby she made me some blankets by hand

Hello Anne i had to look twice for i thought you might have been my sister Anne Winstanley born 1950 both my parents grandparents , aunties,uncles are all from billinge road what a coincidence.

I'd love to visit pemberton hopfully soon I was born at the pemberton hospital in 1954 ,Would love to see a photo of the hospital were i was born at the time if anyone has got any very interested ????