Hi All, At 10:46 PM 07/01/01 -1000, David Collyer wrote: >As you are no > >doubt aware, there appears to be no explicitly named Caulfield Hospital - my > >latest diretory (1997) shows the Caulfield General Medical Centre and the > >Trentwood Hospital (?private). Well, don't forget that an awful lot of name-changing and hospital closing and amalgamating has gone on in recent years. In fact, an earlier Melway (1984) has the Medical Centre still called simply the 'Caulfield Hospital'. The hospital is near the corner of Kooyong and Glen Eira roads, and grew out of the WWI military hospital which was in the 'Glen Eira' mansion. The mansion itself was the townhouse of Henry Ricketson, a Quaker pioneer pastoralist who migrated from Nova Scotia in 1852, and stood on 25 acres on Kooyong Road. It was purchased in 1915 by the Federal Government for use as a military hospital. Between World War I and 1964, it was used as living quarters for nurses completing geriatric training at the Alfred Hospital. The house was condemned and demolished in 1964. The site was purchased by the Victorian Government and is now the Caulfield General Medical Centre. Best! Lloyd