Hi List, and especially Valerie, A splendid reply, as ever, from our friend Vicky Green at Southampton Reference Library. Cheers, Dave Jacobs =============== >Delivered-To: th_freeo-thejacobs-thejacobs@thejacobs.free-online.co.uk >MBOX-Line: From Local.Studies@southampton.gov.uk Fri Dec 10 11:53:51 2004 >Delivered-To: dave:jacobs.net@netidentity.com >X-OB-Received: from unknown (205.158.62.200) > by mta6-1.us4.outblaze.com; 10 Dec 2004 11:53:51 -0000 >From: "Local Studies" <local.studies@southampton.gov.uk> >To: <dave@jacobs.net> >Subject: Re: 2 East Park Terrace >Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 11:48:44 -0000 >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 >X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: dave@jacobs.net >X-Return-Path: Local.Studies@southampton.gov.uk >Reply-To: local.studies@southampton.gov.uk >X-Loop: dave@jacobs.net >X-NAS-Language: English >X-NAS-Bayes: #0: 6.95461E-160; #1: 1 >X-NAS-Classification: 0 >X-NAS-MessageID: 901 >X-NAS-Validation: {09458C76-AB72-4285-9EE5-33F40D371171} > >Dear Mr Jacobs >2 East Park Terrace was the "Southampton Municipal Tuberculosis Dispensary, >School Clinic and Maternity Home" >The Maternity Home had been set up in 1918, with 4 beds upstairs and an >ante-natal & child welfare clinic on the ground floor. By 1932 there were 19 >beds, but the facilities were "noisy and did not allow for any increase in >accommodation." Therefore, in late 1933, plans were made for a new 49 bed >unit adjoining the Borough Hospital "where there was ample ground for >surrounding gardens" (Public Health in a Seaport Town, HC Maurice Williams, >1960) The new unit was opened on 29 April 1937. >The East Park Terrace buildings, now just the municipal clinic and >laboaratory, were destroyed by enemy action on the 30 November 1940. > >There is a photograph of the Terrace taken in the 1930's on the PortCities >website http://www.plimsoll.org/resources/SCCLibraries/3005.asp > >We hope this is of help >Yours >Vicky Green >Special Collections Library >Southampton Reference Library >Civic Centre >Southampton >SO14 7LW > >Tel 023 8083 2205 >This E-mail is intended for the addressee only. If you are not the intended >recipient, the unauthorised use, disclosure, copying or re-transmission of >the e-mail are strictly prohibited. Such action may result in legal >proceedings. Please advise the sender as soon as possible and then delete . >This e-mail, whether it is marked confidential or otherwise, may be >disclosed. No employee, Councillor or agent is authorised to conclude by >e-mail any binding agreement with another party on behalf of the Council. >The Council does not accept service by e-mail of court proceedings or other >legal notices etc. E-mails to and from the Council may be monitored in >accordance with the law. > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Dave Jacobs" <Dave@Jacobs.net> >To: <local.studies@southampton.gov.uk> >Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 8:37 AM >Subject: 2 East Park Terrace > > > > Dear Special Collections Dept, > > > > I have a relative who was born at 2 East Park Terrace in 1921, and a > > correspondent has noted a birth there in 1933. Both families are known to > > have actually lived elsewhere in Southampton at the time. > > > > We wonder whether this was a nursing home of some kind, so that is why I >am > > asking you if you have any information about whether that was so, if it >was > > private, over what dates it was operative, etc. > > > > Many thanks, Dave Jacobs > > > >