Disorganised1 Coventry All posts by this member | 16 of 25 Fri 20th Nov 2015 3:22am Member: Joined Nov 2012 Total posts:261 I have a lot of memories from here:
Being taken to visit my grandmother and being smuggled in under my grandfather's coat because children were not allowed on the ward. She said she would die if she went into hospital, though in reality they only had her in to give her some bed-rest. But she said she'd die - so she did.
Visiting my grandfather when he was in one of the wards, then sitting at his house waiting for him to come home. He was kept waiting in the ambulance on a freezing winter's day and he caught pneumonia and died.
My friend's father was caretaker during the period between it being closed as a hospital and opened as a hotel. Another old Henry's boy, Rich Moule. We'd play football in the wards, or scare each other telling ghost stories about mad surgeons and medical accidents.
My father was a friend of Fred Kilpatrick and he often used to pop in for lunch or a chat, then call for me to come and collect him.
Spud worked here as a waiter and I used to pick him up from the staff quarters when we were going out, or we'd take some scrumpy in and play music.
One of my daughter's had her wedding reception here, and I wandered round with one of the manager's trying to remember how the place used to be laid out.
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Little Nut France All posts by this member | 17 of 25 Fri 1st Apr 2016 4:22pm Member: Joined Mar 2016 Total posts:35 Yet another with Meriden on her passport.
Forget the 2 farms, I am really proud to come from the centre of England i.e. Meriden.
I was born there, had my engagement party there as well as my wedding reception - watch out, if it ever becomes an undertakers I will know my days are numbered!!
I do remember it often being difficult to book a table for the carvery, to celebrate family events etc., as coach parties came from all over to sample the experience. I believe some years later after I had moved away it became a Medieval Carvery.
Regards,
Little Nut
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mickw nuneaton All posts by this member | 18 of 25 Fri 1st Apr 2016 5:45pm Member: Joined Oct 2013 Total posts:439 I remember many years ago my uncle treated all of our side of the family to a carvery meal to celebrate his wedding anniversary, it was the first time we'd all had a carvery. A chap had piled his plate so high he was having a job to carry it without food falling off the plate, my mum spotted him and nudged me and said "Look at that, eyes bigger than the belly". She'd no sooner said it when he slipped and the lot ended up on the floor. Needless to say the next plate was less overloaded when he walked back to his table, with a very red face, to his adoring wife who didn't stop chewing his ear off for the rest of the evening. ![]() ![]() |
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Midland Red Cherwell All posts by this member | 19 of 25 Fri 1st Apr 2016 6:33pm Moderator: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:5606 My late father was a patient in Keresley for some weeks in the mid-1950s, very ill with renal colic. I recall it as a dismal place, but nevertheless he received wonderful treatment, recovering afterwards at a nursing home in Kenilworth. I also recall it as the place I first tasted white chocolate, which a fellow visitor shared with me. |
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Skybluethinker South Cambs All posts by this member | 20 of 25 Sat 28th Dec 2019 10:16pm Member: Joined Dec 2019 Total posts:11 On 29th Aug 2011 3:31pm, JohnB said:
My wife was born at the Royal Court (as it is now). She was registered at Meriden & was supposed to be called Suzanne, unfortunately her mother was unsure how to spell it so she ended up as Susan!!!
I too was born here, in 1949, and I recall my parents referring to it as the Keresley Maternity Hospital (or Home). I've always been rather intrigued that my birth certificate gives Meriden as place of birth.
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Slim Another Coventry kid All posts by this member | 21 of 25 Sun 29th Dec 2019 12:29am Member: Joined Mar 2013 Total posts:804 I too was born in Keresley Hospital (in the 50s), and the "Meriden" on my birth certificate has always puzzled me. ![]() |
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Midland Red Cherwell All posts by this member | 22 of 25 Sun 29th Dec 2019 8:00am Moderator: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:5606 Meriden was the “Registration District” which cover the location of the hospital at Keresley - see this link ![]() |
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lolipop arley All posts by this member | 23 of 25 Mon 30th Dec 2019 11:57am Member: Joined Oct 2018 Total posts:30 I was born in Keresley Hospital in 1946. Mum and dad only lived in Rollason Rd right opposite the Pilot. My wife was also born in Keresley in 1947 when there was a very bad snow and her dad walked from Whitefriars St to get there.
At 8 years old I had an eye operation and I have vivid memory of the ward being in a building on the left as you went in the entrance to the grounds.
Meriden is on my Birth Certificate as well.
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Prof Gloucester All posts by this member | 24 of 25 Wed 1st Jan 2020 5:31pm Member: Joined Jul 2014 Total posts:1534 On 28th Aug 2011 6:49pm, PhilipInCoventry said:
I cannot find any history on-line regards The Royal Court or Keresley Hall as I believe it once was. I may have to see what it says in the 'Victoria History of Coventry'. Can anyone on here help? I was born there when it was the Hospital.
Philip, the VCH vol viii, Coventry, gives little information of Keresley Hall, merely lists it with other 19th century built houses (p.81). You can see this on line!
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Annewiggy Tamworth All posts by this member | 25 of 25 Wed 1st Jan 2020 6:46pm Member: Joined Jan 2013 Total posts:1835 From articles in the newspaper archives. Keresley Hall was built in the mid 1870’s about the same time as Coundon Court and Keresley Grange. It was bought in 1927 with the Alcock Trust of £12,000 left by the late Mr John Alcock to be a convalescent hospital to be know as the Alcock Convalescent Hospital. It was the home of the late Mr William Hillman and was being sold by his relatives. In 1836 Keresley Grange was the home of Mr Hugh Rotherham, to be demolished for a housing estate and of course Coundon Court, the home of Mr George Singer, became a school. |
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