Thank you, listers, for your efforts to shed light on my suspected Maud St. nursing home. Nothing 100% proven, but looking very unlikely. But whether or no, a great bonus was the reference to the North-East War Diary site. What a marvelous browse! In it I discovered that my g'father's chemist shop on Roker Ave at Stansfield St missed a bomb by a few yards. My uncle, who lived over the shop, never told me that. This Sunderland site is peopled with second-milers. Bruce Dodd Ottawa, ON