tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11971813171623234032024-03-18T03:03:40.442+00:00Forgotten FairmileFairmile has been a big part of Cholsey from the day it was built. It gave many people a livelihood including my parents. The intention of this blog is to show some of the changes that have taken place and is as much a tribute to my parents as to everyone else who worked there. The photo's I will be sharing are from an archive I have built up over the last few years, some are old and some are from where I have been going round the site recording the development of the place.Billy Blue Eyeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12053172567806569702noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197181317162323403.post-40954935676171776562020-02-07T14:29:00.001+00:002024-03-17T12:44:47.640+00:00The Farm<br />
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The farm was built to not only to help make the Hospital self significant in feeding the patients, it also served towards their treatment in giving them a purpose and work to do.<br />
They used to keep a dairy herd for milk which used to graze down by the river. They also kept pigs and had and orchard along with allotments for vegetables.<br />
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If you look at his photo you can see over to the right what looks like an orchard and garden.<br /></div><div>
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This picture of the Rotherfield shows areas which have been cultivated.<br />
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This one shows it was an orchard as well.<br />
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In 2008 this is what that area looked like devoid of anything apart from grass.<br />
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<br /> right is where they used to keep animals at one time on the far left were storage barns<br />
Unfortunately I have no photo's of the farm from early in the 19century so can only show you what I saw in 2008.<br />
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These were the pigsties though I would think the corrugated buildings behind are a later addition.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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This is looking towards the stables and yards with storage for fodder and grain.<br />
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Same area in 2010, note the bricked up door in the stable block.<br />
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This area is what I called the stable yard it will be retained but at present it's use is unknown. I managed to get inside for a quick look </div>
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The area had been used as storage and the stables gone<br />
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There were the remains of a huge wasp nest in one corner </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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Upstairs was another floor with more storage </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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Inside the pigsty gained a roof at sometime for calves or cattle to go in.<br />
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These bars kept something large behind like a bull.<br />
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Inside the pen the bull had this shelter, not sure about the table though.<br />
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These buildings near by looked like part of the old farm building though there use may have been nurses accommodation and later as office use</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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These are more buildings which look like they could have been stables or similar.<br />
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Round the other side of some of the buildings were these pens that had been converted for another use. The boarded up doors still lead into them.<br />
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More pens with the use changed, over the right out of sight the pens had been demolished.<br />
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The Rotherfield was not exempt either and the beginning of Jan 2011 was well on the way to being demolished the gardens that were here now churned up mud.<br />
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By February all trace of the farm apart from the stables was gone.<br />
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The Rotherfield a pile of Rubble.<br />
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In 2013 a new building started to rise where the Rotherfield used to be. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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The farm are also had a building rising where the old buildings used to be.<br />
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By the end of 2013 the building work on the residential properties will be finished The Stables and store still wait restoration work</div>
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The present day the buildings beside Ratcliffe way are now fenced off<br />
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The animal pens and sheds are now just a memory, </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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The buildings that once were here have been replaced by bin storage and an access road called Woodward, no doubt the lady who it is called after walked here in the past </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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The courtyard has been cleaned up but is used for storage </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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Flats stand on the old pens and buildings that once stood here ghosts of the past.</div>
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The old storage building await planning and conversion to what ever they will be used for, I will update the blog when they do .</div>
After six years in May 2019 a new show home was opened in Ratcliffe court, Thomas Homes finally got permission in 2018 to convert the stables and feed stores to dwellings. Part of the sits will be used for commercial use. The buildings due for completion in September 2019<br />
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The building on the right has not changed other than the addition off a door which will lead to an office </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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Poking the camera over the fence shows large windows, the one with the black covering is down as a shop and the nearby ones as a salon </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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This is the courtyard. the center will be a car park and the areas around the outside by the houses patio's <br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;">Inside the decor is a far cry form when I came in here before the conversion, then it was cold an damp now it is neat and cosy </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div>
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as is the double bedroom. There is also a smaller single one next door and a kitchen which I forgot to get a photo of . Next time.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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Outside work has been done along the side of the building with windows put in</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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The door to the right is the entrance to a one bedroom house, the one to the left has nothing marked down for it yet so if it's an office or house I could not say<br />
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Still not sure what these are though I was told they are offices but we will see<br />
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The next time I visited the building were fully converted and awaiting their new owners </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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A car park now replaces the old animal pens that were here </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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That is it the whole area now has been converted and I have to wonder what those people who worked here all those years ago would think now. At least the place will live on longer in it's new form.<br />
I will come back in the spring and revisit the block for a last update </div>
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</div>Billy Blue Eyeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12053172567806569702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197181317162323403.post-75566389231595977582019-12-15T15:55:00.001+00:002024-03-17T16:55:24.958+00:00Hermitage Ward<br />
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I think I should start this blog with this photo of a group of happy looking nurses in front of some open french doors</div>
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Going from left right the first person in Peter Vic, next to him is my Father Richard and in the middle is Alf Reynolds who I have no doubt was the Charge Nurse, I really could not tell you who the other two people are but in front I see a treatment trolley with various enamelled bowls, no paper ones back then, the last thing I noticed whale looking at the photo is it was taken in the Veranda, you can just see the top of in above the glass over the door.</div>
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I wondered at first where this photo could have been taken and puzzled over it for a while but in the end I found out it was Hemitage ward. </div>
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This is the Veranda where they were stood, I remember going in it when I was very young and they used to wheel the beds out so patients could get the sun<br />
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In 2008 I wandered up to the site to take some photo of the place, I know I could not get that close because of security </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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The next time I got chace to see the place was September 2010 and it was quiet overgrow though I took this photo along the side of the building, I'm sure the blocked up doorway you see is the one in the photo<br />
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Across the window you can see the remains of the led that sealed the glass roof of the veranda </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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I remember very little of what the ward looked inside so in 2011 I had the chance to go and get some photos before they tore the place apart and it all changed. this is the corridor down to the day room, the doors off on the left lead to various offices and rooms</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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The kitchen still had a sign above it </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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On a blackboard one the staff had left a message</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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Going into the day room you could see the rich wood panels around the room </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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Curtains still hung in place in another<br />
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Above Hermitage ward was another that would have mirrored this one only when I went up there I found it a little different.<br />
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The day room looked like this with false ceiling</div><div style="text-align: center;"> <br />
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This was the entrance to the long corridor, notice the lack of wood </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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This was used as a treatment room<br />
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This was the kitchen, where I'm sure a few mindless idiots had gotten in before security got tightened up</div><div style="text-align: center;"> <br />
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I did check up on the work that was being done from time to time<br />
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The long corridor was being split into rooms </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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Looking at the day room I had to wonder what my Father would have thought and noticed the pillars in the photo. It dawned on me that in the photo of my father and the nurses I could see a pillar over to the right, the one I was looking at in the photos, they were stood in front of the door just left of it</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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Many books have been written about Asylums though to my knowledge only two about Fairmile. In this blog I will be reviewing three. The third one is called Life in the Victorian Asylum by Mark Stevens of the Berkshire Records Office, this was the first of the three to be published which I read. Mark has given some very interesting talks on the subject and they are well worth going to. His book Life in a Victorian Asylum tells you what life was like if you were a patient and in the first half of the book explains what life will be like and what you would expect. It's as if the Physician was talking to you. His tour round the building is just like being there in person but then from my point of view I could tell what ward or corridor he was taking you as I have walked the same places. In the second half he gives some detail on some of the patients who were there and tells you how Caring for the mentally disturbed had changed in the time Fairmile was open. The book was based on both Fairmile & Broadmoor the latter I might add I have never been to. The book I found was amusing in places and gave a good insight as to life in the Asylum</div>
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The second Book called Fair Mile Hospital A Victorian Asylum is by Ian Wheeler and he gives you the history of Fair Mile form it's beginnings to when it closed in 2003. Tells of the changes to the place and the story from the people who ran it's point of view. It helped that Ian started out tracing his relatives who worked at the Asylum and it's backed up with may old photos of the people who worked there not to mention a good few form me in the form more modern ones.<br />
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Stands for Occupational Therapy and patients were given this to try to stimulate their minds. I have no doubt that working on the farm was how the Victorians used to do this as back then the place was self supporting. In my parents time not only was there the farm but also a building where they used to do various crafts.</div>
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This is the only photo I have of the original building which is on the left, it was taken around 1951.The original building was demolished before the hospital closed and by then the OT had moved to a new purpose built place that my Father worked <br />
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This was left hanging on the wall</div>
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The corridors were left dark foreboding and dangerous, I was glad to get out</div>
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November the place still stood though things did not look good for the place<br />
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December and the place had gone, for some reason I missed this happening and all that was left was a big pile of rubble. The memory of the place and the people who worked there had gone but hopefully not forgotten.<br />
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Looking down at the site from the roof in 2011<br />
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Today it looks like this with a new community of people living and working on the site of the old OT building. </div>
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<br />Billy Blue Eyeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12053172567806569702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197181317162323403.post-46600045654302422015-12-14T08:44:00.003+00:002024-03-17T16:36:57.685+00:00The Road Names<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Even before development Fairmile had it's own network of roads for daily delivery's and movements round the hospital. Once the site developed they utilized the old roads and built the new ones. The roads and blocks of flat's needed names so in this blog I'm going to endeavor let you know the story behind the road name.</div>
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This is the site of Fairmile as it is now, the shaded out area is the main building around which is the road network serviced. The other shaded parts were the farm and gatehouse. The old roads were upgraded and used for the present roads and some new ones added.</div>
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The building was split in two as far as patents were concerned so if you draw a line down the middle of the map the right hand side was Male and the Left Female. They were only known by their numbers.<br />
I remember as a child my parents talking about the wards they worked on be it Female Ones or Male Eight. I knew this when I started recording the site the wards were referred to by their numbers and was presently surprised to find that the wards still had the numbers on under the hardboard covering which had been fitted on the doors in the 1960's (Dad did the same at home). In 1959 the numbers changed to names and were named after villages & Towns which is how the names come about you see on the main building. With the exception of Ridgeway, Ipsden & Goring all the wards are named after Berkshire Villages though now after the boundary change in the 1970's many are Oxfordshire<br />
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We start at the place people first see. This was the old administration block I was surprised to find it was called Hermitage Court which was a male ward that is right on the other side of the block and called Ridgeway<br />
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The old entrance to the administration block and records office is now Hermitage<br />
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The blocks of flats in the main building are now named after the wards that were nearby, the entrance to the female airing courts can be seen to the right of the building</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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Faringdon ward was the female ward that used to be in that part of the building<br />
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Blewbury is still where the ward it is called used to be<br />
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along with Frilsham, the small door you see to the right was an access door to the services in the base of the tower <br />
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The George Shuster Ward which was built in the 1950's and named after <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Schuster_%28public_servant%29" target="_blank">Sir George Schuster </a><br />
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This view shows you looking towards Ferry lane from near the Kitchen entrance. This was one of the
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Where they removed the old social club and built new housing, the road became Newlands Close. A little further along to the left is Villa Close this was one of the last areas built in this part of the development. The one thing they have in common is<br />
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Named for the architect who was behind the building of Fairmile<br />
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Named after William (Bill) Southby who was Clark off works for Fairmile <br />
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She used to live with Albie Ruttle who's name you see here, the both
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Rotherfield road takes it's name from the old building which used to be the isolation ward<br />
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This used to be the old farm entrance and the court is<br />
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I've left this one till last one reason is there was no one at Fairmile with that name. It should read NICHOLLS Close but the South Oxfordshire District Council miss spelt it when the sent out the list Cholsey Parish Council who either never saw or noticed the mistake. End outcome is the people living there were not keen on changing everything because of the mistake (who can blame them) though I doubt the council would have worried about changing it if it was named after a famous person and they miss spelt it.<br />
So just to give some background to the name from what I can tell there were four Nicholls who worked at Fairmile. Moses Nicholls who as Clerk & Steward in the early 1900's Avery Nicholls who was Steward in around the 1930's and Dick & Mary Nicholls who worked there from around 1942 to 1978. There was a fifth for a short time. Dick had a sister called Lue who married Alfred Kennedy. Personally I like to think the close is named after Dick & Mary. I might add the close is where Dick used to work <a href="http://forgottenfairmile.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/the-rotherfield.html" target="_blank">Rotherfield Ward</a>.<br />
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Hope this gives you some insight into the story behind the name of the roads and flats. All Black & White photos come from the Forgotten Faces Collection and are copyright <br />
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These two photos of my dad and his fiend Idwel John were taken outside the Rotherfield on a cold frame in the garden.<br />
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The same area just before demolition, the windows have been enlarged to allow more light in<br />
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In January 2008 the place looked very desolate<br />
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Come June it looked a little brighter the place looked very different with the old gardens gone and looking very overgrown.<br />
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Before the place was demolished I had the chance to look round inside the building and during this was able to confirm it was the place where the photo of my father had been taken.<br />
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This was one of the wards though now partitioned off<br />
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The odd mural painted, think Dad would have appreciated this one<br />
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One of the wards was here but now made into smaller rooms It was while I was here<br />
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By September people lived in the new houses the only reminder was the road the passes is called Rotherfield Road<br />
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One last thing a close was named Nicolls Close (should have
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This QR code was placed on the sign and explanes the story behind the name<br />
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The old road leadint to the Rotherfield<br />
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Ian Wheelers New book Fair Mile Hospital a Victorian Asylum was launched on the 30th May at Cholsey pavilion (Parish Hall) </div>
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the book can be purchased through <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fair-Mile-Hospital-Victorian-Asylum/dp/0750956038" target="_blank">Amazon</a> as well.<br />
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<br />Billy Blue Eyeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12053172567806569702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197181317162323403.post-91700373643751073932015-04-19T20:22:00.000+01:002024-03-17T09:18:08.273+00:00The Mortuary <br />
A place many urban explorers tried to find but only a few succeeded. Most of them walked past it on their efforts to gain access to the main building. My self I never found out it's where abouts till I was allowed to take photos with my Colleague Nigel about a year into our project.<br />
The place has now been converted so I feel I can now show the photo's of the Morgue.<br />
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So here it is when I first saw it in June 2011. The number of times I walked past this place as I kid and never realised what it was.<br />
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We found it with this half coffin which was most likely used for displaying the diciest for relatives. The leaves came in from a hole in the roof.<br />
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This flower display is on one of the shelves used to lay bodies on before the use of fridges<br />
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These are the shelves where bodies would have laid, at the end the wood blocks for the neck <br />
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View along one of the shelves <br />
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The fridge which could hold three bodies. The box trolley was used to move the diciest from the wards to the Morgue. I know one village lads who worked at the hospital as a porter got in it and frightened the staff when they opened it. It nearly cost him his job. It also happened to a poor yung chippie working on the site here a while after I took the photos<br />
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Through this door is were the autopsy table was <br />
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Wonder how many people this saw <br />
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Billy Blue Eyeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12053172567806569702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197181317162323403.post-43299010968428078612015-03-08T10:07:00.000+00:002024-03-17T09:18:07.777+00:00The Laundry & Stores<span id="goog_1938228519"></span><span id="goog_1938228520"></span><br />
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The Laundry and Stores were both linked even though they started as separate places but I will start with the Laundry which used to have a lot of people working from the village and surrounding areas.<br />
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The original Laundry from what I can tell you is around where I have circled not far from where the 1960's kitchen was built. In the 1960's a new one was built with all the latest equipment to wash laundry from the hospital.<br />
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This was how the building looked back in 2009, the laundry is the building with the vents behind the stores. </div>
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Inside had been cleared of all machines <br />
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The area where the Laundry was built is near the old farm and incorporated another building which was built in the 1950s, the Stores</div>
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The photo shows what was labeled as the stores and had a staff of it's own. The two vans are the site runarounds, one was and electric van the other
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The photo here was taken to the right of the white van in the building photo.</div>
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This is the stores in 2009 , to the left is the covered loading area and ramp, the laundry is behind and has the big roof vents for the steam and ventilation. The original stores you saw in the photo was burned down a few years after it was built being replaced by the one above</div>
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This is part of the stores area back in 2009 where you are looking out to the loading area through one of the large doors.</div>
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Part of the stores with the store mans office</div>
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The stores admin office</div>
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The loading dock and ramp in 2009 <br />
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Below are some older photo's of local people who worked at the Laundry though the two guy's Sid Patrick & Abbey Ruttle worked in the laundry as well</div>
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The laundry must have been a good place to work for may people who lived in the village and from the look some fun was had though the couple on the left were inseparable and lived together in the village till they both passed away .<br />
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The Lady here is Doris Marshall on her retirement by the look of things she is also sat next to her sister Rose in the second photo. <br />
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This is the Laundry in Sep 2010 large braithwaite tank is to supply water for the machines not sure what the green one is but could be a softener as the water in the area is hard.<br />
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In 2010 the Laundry building itself was looking rather sad and very dilapidated. <br />
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But then the machines moved in and all the grass became ripped up and rubble dumped on the area.The stores was the first building to go.<br />
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The finished houses as they are today.</div>
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<br />Billy Blue Eyeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12053172567806569702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197181317162323403.post-63433478130161067502014-10-03T20:50:00.001+01:002024-03-17T09:18:08.007+00:00The Hermitage Lawn<br />
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This photo of my Dad was most likely taken in the 1960's as you can see Dad is sat on a seat with some of the patents he was in charge of. At this time he was a charge nurse of Hermitage Ward. The photo was taken in the corner of the airing courts</div>
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The second photo below shows dad with one of the nurses who worked under him. Unfortunately I do not know his name. Behind you can see the wall of the airing court and past that is what looks like the new OT block. Just in front of the wall are a couple of patents sitting on the bench watching what was going on</div>
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Roll on to 2010 and the lawn is looking like this, the benches long gone or rotted away<br />
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The tree they stood under is still there though. Behind that you can make out the OT block<br />
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The OT block was still there in November 2010 <br />
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But a couple of weeks later in December it was gone, I missed that one.<br />
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The sign on the left went sometime in 2012 and by 2013 the road leading to the old OT building looked like this.<br />
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By the end of 2013 it was looking like this <br />
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people lived in the houses built where the old OT block used to be.<br />
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The tree still stands in the airing court by Hermitage ward surrounded with memories of the people who used the lawn. I wonder what Dad would make of it all.</div>
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Billy Blue Eyeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12053172567806569702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197181317162323403.post-20680146533460310332014-09-29T20:18:00.093+01:002024-03-17T09:18:07.575+00:00Back to the Begining<div><p style="text-align: left;"><br />
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This blog came out from some of old photos I had which belonged to my parents and over the last three and a half years I have gone round the place they worked taking photos of the building and how it has changed. In this blog I will try and show some of the changes which have taken place.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDfgsv9Q8otPqicaMYDo3ti7FdIFJdU2rWScKA0TPGdmJawE0MFaJw0kzys0nYjZ33joqyeH7DonjlRC5R2VqQr-uf0RYa29CCrgGl2Z9OAgg1aPeug5Sgku9S2CJLw2OwlJ51gA-jONqcz39hUkOM12DbWNDxD0HXWrjfSSCtpx-CzgvDwY6CpkjRFn-Z/s2496/IMG_1713%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1664" data-original-width="2496" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDfgsv9Q8otPqicaMYDo3ti7FdIFJdU2rWScKA0TPGdmJawE0MFaJw0kzys0nYjZ33joqyeH7DonjlRC5R2VqQr-uf0RYa29CCrgGl2Z9OAgg1aPeug5Sgku9S2CJLw2OwlJ51gA-jONqcz39hUkOM12DbWNDxD0HXWrjfSSCtpx-CzgvDwY6CpkjRFn-Z/w640-h426/IMG_1713%20(2).JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">
This was the font of the hospital back in 2008 a few years before I started recording the place.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>
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These next three areas are very close to each other <br />
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A new entrance has now been made and the corridor replaced<br />
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This 60's extension used to hold a goods lift<br />
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Now its gone and a new entrance is in it's place<br />
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Part of the old kitchen goods in area <br />
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Now the area has a new entrance<br />
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This was the kitchen when I first got to visit</div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div>
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Now the whole scene has changed</div>
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The entrance now has taken on a different more welcoming look.<br />
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This was the old superintendents house that was built near the chapel </div>
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This blog is deadicated to George Brown who passed away after I wrote this blog, RIP George</div>
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This photo was taken as the boilerhouse was being built and it would have been hard to know what Fairmiles boilerhouse would have looked like inside but I would say very similar to the photo below which (I pillaged from the workhouses.org.uk site) Back when it opened they would have been coal fired and not oil like I remember them fueled by oil.<br />
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The boilerhouse was manned 24hours a day mostly by local people like my friends dad Pete Marshall who we quite offten used to visit if we were up there. The place was a wonder to me with shiny copper pipes and pressure guages. The light from the flame could be seen shining trough the inspection hatch.</div>
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By 2010 when I saw the place it was very different to the first photo</div>
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Fairmiles boilers would have been used to provide heating and hot water for the place and the pipes ran in underground tunnels to various parts of the hospital </div>
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The boiler house in Sep 2010 though I have to admit when I used to visit the doors were big green wooden ones</div>
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I managed to get my hand through the side of the door with my compact camera and took this photo (two stitched), I was a bit shocked as the place was not how I remember and looked in a very sorry state, no doubt Pete Marshall would cry if he were alive to see this. George Brown one of the maintenance engineers who worked there remembers in the morning when he came to work he had to check the boilers were working ok and the pressure was 100psi, he then checked the heating was running as it should. There were three boilers, two large and one smaller one. The large ones where used in the winter with the smaller one as a booster, in the spring the smaller one took over.</div>
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By the end of 2011 the skyline started to change when the water tower was demolished<br />
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At the present time the first photo looks like this, the chimney was shortened at some time in the 1960s when they converted to oil. The chimney will remain after being restored . To me it will remain a monument for the people to ran the Bolierhouse.</div>
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Billy Blue Eyeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12053172567806569702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197181317162323403.post-50553692611662224752013-07-09T22:34:00.003+01:002024-03-17T09:18:07.850+00:00Video Tribute<br />
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Since 2010 I have been involved in photographing the development of
Fairmile Hospital. During that time I linked up with a local villager
who was researching his relations who worked there. So started off the
Forgotten Faces project which my blog Forgotten Fairmile is linked to.
Today I have made a video montage of some of my photos for you to watch
with music by Emerald Park I hope you enjoy what I have done.<br />
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<br />Billy Blue Eyeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12053172567806569702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197181317162323403.post-5919632985050314102013-05-23T09:17:00.001+01:002024-03-17T12:16:55.799+00:00The Extensions<div><p><br />
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The extensions were additions built sometime in the 1950/60's to Blewbury, Basildon, Compton and Caversham Wards, you can see how the hospital looked in this old photo of Fairmile taken from the air it shows the layout probably unchanged from when it was built in the 1800's</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The same wards looked like this in 2008 when I walked round the site. </div>
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This is Blewbury and Compton wards in 2010 during the snow.</div>
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This is Basildon and Caversham wards in 2010 when I first went on site.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">
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and Blewbury and Compton wards which were looking very dilapidated <br />
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This is what Basildon ward looked like in 2010.<br />
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<br />It even had the bath still there.
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Caversham ward was no different with bathrooms and wards still intact apart from no beds </div><div><br />
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When I got to Blewbury and Compton wards they were little differentThough at least the corridors were brighter
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The wards had curtains </div><div><br />
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The treatment rooms had cupboards and sinks in.<br />
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I missed the demolition of Blewbury and Compton wards because one day I too this photo then realised something was missing I'd forgotten all about asking when it was going to be demolished.<br />
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But that is where it used to be <br />
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But was certainly gone leaving a big hole in the building.<br />
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Presently the building looks like this and in about six months or less will be finished.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;">This is where Basildon and Caversham wards used to be. The turf has just been laid and the properties will be soon ready for viewing. The place now has started looking like it was in the old photo.</div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;">Now it looks a much more pleasant place to be</div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;">As for the old extension you would hardly now where it was.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">I really can't go much further in the blog with out saying a bit on Linden Homes & Thomas Homes who were so helpful in letting me have access to the site.</span></span><br />
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noticed that more activity had been going on around Fairmile Hospital, rumor
had it that work would soon be started on the derelict site. I had been wanting
to go and get photo’s of the place for quite a while but did to want to go
climbing fences to gain access (I’d missed my chance when it shut) so I emailed
the owners of the site only to get the usual fobbing off</span>, then one day I noticed things were happening round the place and popped up to see if I could find some one to talk with. As luck would have I saw Simon Pendleton from Linden and he seemed hopeful it could happen. He also told me Thomas Homes were going to be working on the main building. A quick look on the Internet and I found Thomas homes and emailed Hugh Thomas the MD and arranged a meeting. Hugh was very interested in what I wanted to do and gave permission for my project. I had to see Nick Monigue who was his site manager who gave me a health and safety talk.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I enlisted the help of Nigel Peterson to help with recording the building and we started in September 2010</span>.</span></span><br />
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This was how the site looked the day I arrived to record the building with security fencing surrounding it.<br />
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Within a couple of months the Linden Project office was built</div>
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Thomas homes had their own units as well. I used to phone up and let Nick at Thomas Homes or Saran or Jason know I'd be coming up on site. Usually I'd be told where it was safe and what to watch out for.<br />
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Just along in the contractor carpark was the Fairmile Cafe where all the contractors could get a hot meal at lunchtime, more than once I saw Jason tucking into a bacon sandwich. <br />
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These two have been at the center of the action from the start.<br />
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Brickies hard at work on the Schuster Houses.<br />
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They had a show home to organise to sell the houses that were being built.<br />
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Welcome To Cholsey Meadows<br />
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Faringdon ward in a stripped down state as they started the work laying new joists and waste pipes.<br />
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The new sales and marketing suit <br />
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The Ipsten Ward site was nearly ready for furnishing. <br />
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No longer looking drab and dismal<br />
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The next stage is on the way to being built.<br />
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In 2015 the front of the building looked like this the sales office on the left now gone Fairmile had entered a new phase of life<br />
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The original cemetery was over on the south west side.</div>
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A few headstones can be seen in the area though there is one which watches over them.</div>
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"Write me as one (who laboured for) Loved his fellow men the Angel wrote"</div>
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He died on 28th April 1917 His wife Celia who is buried with him passed away on 9th October 1962 aged 92 years.</div>
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The statue used to have a trumpet but that disappeared many years ago.</div>
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Like these in the photo's above, when I was young I used to cut the grass in the churchyard and was always coming across them.</div>
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When the churchyard ran out of room an extension was built next door and the Fairmile cemetery went next door as well.</div>
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The
is the second Fairmile cemetery with a few headstones showing, no
doubt provided by their estate and relatives. Most of them have no
marker to remember them. I'm also not sure if the area was used for
paupers graves as I seem to remember an open grave with planks on which I
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One
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Another
person or persons who worked at Fairmile were Moses Nicholls and Avery
Nicholls the latter who I think was the son of Moses. Both worked as
Stewards of Fairmile. Moses is buired with his Wife Maria and Avery
with his Sister Blanche who I knew as Miss Nicholls and remember her
riding a bicycle round the village and visiting a lady who lived next
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William
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staff who worked at Fairmile and was a keen sportsman. He now has a
close named after him New housing at Fairmile. His grave like the last
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The
O'Brians were family friends and used to live in the Star Terrace
before moving to the new housing built in 1960 along Papist way I went
to school with the oldest son and was Friends with him for years till we
lost touch. Last I heard was that he had moved to Ireland. His younger
brother Paul young like his Mother.</div>
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The
name Ethel Mary Fetherstone is a name I recognise but I could not tell
you any more at the moment. The cemetery here is still provided for by
the NHS in maintenance costs though there are few headstones there to
remind you of what the place was used for. When you
walk round the cemetery you can recognise many of the
staff who worked there including my parents. A few I have shown and will
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The plaque on the wall is the reminder of those who lay buried here RIP.</div>
<br />Billy Blue Eyeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12053172567806569702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197181317162323403.post-82244357181350260102013-03-01T22:35:00.003+00:002024-03-17T09:29:39.609+00:00The Great Hall<br />
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The Theater where all the entertainment went on and show were put on for both staff and patents from the look it was one of the original buildings. The photo above was taken in the 1980's and shows and extension on the end that is not there in any of the aerial photo's from the 1930's<br />
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Cropped photo showing the hall, note there is no extension on the end by the road.<br />
The hall was use all types of entertainment including plays and concerts.<br /></div><div>
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This is one of the older photos from the Forgotten faces project, it says concert but I think t may well have been a play.<br /></div></div><div>
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Pantomimes were very popular with both patients,staff and people from the village who came along. I remember going to a few.</div>
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Cholsey Silver band were also very popular and would always put on a good show I might add a few of the staff were part of it like Peter and Wilf Marshall along with my neighbor Wally Hare. Most of them came form the Village so were only too pleased to be there.</div>
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Dances were another attraction there and the balls they had were always well attended, I remember going to a few. </div>
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This bunch of revelers is most likely at one of the balls.</div>
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The hall back in 2010 when I first saw the place in years <br />Note the badminton court, something I used to play here in the 1970's </div><div style="text-align: center;"> <br />
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Looking back towards the sliding doors. The small opening near the
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This is the bar area near the hall though I think this was built yeas after I stopped going to dances because I worked a couple of bars for a pub and this was not there in the 1970's.<br />
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Entrance to the hall, it never looked like this when I was young.<br />
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Lots of faded photos of some of the functions and Fairmile.<br />
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On stage some of the scenery was still there from the last pantomime which was put on.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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The lighting was also still there </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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Though I was warned against going under the stage still had a look and took this from the stairs where you can see the floor has rotted and collapsed </div>
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Soon enough the bar area was stripped to start relieving its past.</div>
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The hall became used for storage of some of the building materials for a while </div>
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Then one day I came in and saw this view of the hall.<br />
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There would have been to projectors so the films could be swapped over like in a real cinema.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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All this wooden scene and lighting equipment was removed<br />
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To leave a clean stage area which will have lighting added in the new year</div>
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The hall is having the floor stripped for varnishing<br />
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The sliding doors are being pained </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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The back of the building now looks like this after it was cleaned up<br />
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Children's cakes on display for Mary Berry to Judge </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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Hugh Thomas the director of Thomas Homes introducing Mary Berry </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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The Oval was the area outside the front of the hospital and the area where the front of hospital was depicted like this drawing of the hospital.</div>
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When you look at the drawing of the place when it first opened and compare it with how it changed over the years little seems to have changed.</div>
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This photo was taken I think sometime in the late 1940's of early 1950's and was one of the photo's my father had in his possessions. The place as you can see has a good covering of ivy. Note over on the left the walled are which is in the drawing at the start.</div>
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A few years later the covering was cleared </div>
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By the 1980's the front looked like this</div>
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This is how the place looking in 2008 five years after the place closed. The place had changed little.</div>
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But in 2010 when you look at this photo towards the same area you can see the wall has gone many years before hand.</div>
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The wonderful arch that had been there was also gone and a concrete lintel in it's place though the other arches were still there.</div>
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This photo of my Father was taken outside the main entrance to Fairmile, note the overgrown foliage like you can see in the second picture.</div>
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Today the entrance has changed little though now clear of the plant that was there. <br />
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This part here used to be the superintendents flat with the steps leading to the entrance door there, the bay window would have been his sitting room and the whole three floors belonged to him. I suspect the basement may have been his personal kitchen<br />
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This is how it looked when I went round in 2010 with Nigel, a sad shadow of it's former self. BTW we turned the hard hats round as the peek gets in the way of the camera.<br />
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This is what the flat looked like inside, many of the original features still in place,<br />
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Like the plaster work for the light fittings.<br />
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He also had his own entrance in the building.<br />
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This area which is below the superintendents flat I'm told was the original kitchen though there is little to tell you this and I'm afraid I did not go back to see what the place looked like stripped out.<br />
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This was the reception when I went round in 2010 though it is nothing
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A few months later and the place had been removed leaving the original corridors either side.<br />
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Outside was a scene of devastation with only one of the original buildings being left standing the long corridor which had been added was removed.<br />
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The front underwent as change from this.<br />
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To this where they were removing all old additions to the place.</div>
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The new flats and now being sold and soon people will be living there.<br />
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The chapel was where patents and staff could go and worship and no doubt
back when the place was first built you had to go to for Sunday worship as
part of the job. No doubt part of the Victorian thinking was to healing that going to church was for the good of your soul. One side chapel was consecrated as Catholic
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The Chapel would have been used for the salvation of the people who worked there and some of the patients who were able to go. From what I could see the place was not used that much and I think in the end the catholic priest was the only one who had any service there though even that went out the window and he used one of the old rooms in the admin block.<br />
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This is looking down the nave to the chancel, over to the left is the catholic chapel and the right the organ.</div>
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The organ which I might add did work as as I remember it being played at Sunday mass by some one who could play it. <br />
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The keyboard where the organist did his work <br />
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Hymn books and kneeler's were still on the pew's where they were left, even the last hymn number was there.<br />
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Vase's and prayerbook on the window sill<br />
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The Catholic chapel had the altar and rails removed <br />
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Some scanky little chav had ripped off the door from the Tabernacle
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Sadly the organ has been been removed and the worse thing for me was I
never managed to get back for more photo's of it. The building itself
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The kitchen was the heart of Fairmile cooking meals for staff and patients, buffets for the staff dances even the staffs Christmas turkey which was brought in an taken home (good old dad).</div>
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This photo shows the staff from that time or even before and is thought to be the laundary which was not far from the kitchen</div>
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The kitchen was enlarged and modernised at some time to cope with the growing staff and patients who were there. The kitchen you see below was at one time the Laundry and converted to a kitchen in the 1960's. In 2010 this is how I saw the place from the loading area.</div>
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The original buildings were gone and this built probably in the 1950/60's.</div>
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Closer shot a moth later, on the roof you can see a huge puddle of water which leaked into the kitchen.</div>
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This was one of the corridors which led to the kitchen. <br />
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The kitchen, these would have been where the meals were put on trolly's for wheeling to various wards<br />
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The trolly's were plugged into the sockets to keep the meals <span id="goog_659768009"></span><span id="goog_659768010"></span>warm before transporting to the wards.<br />
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The huge canopy's here removed the steam and cooking smells from the working area.<br />
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On the wall still hung the white board with the days meals on and times of the lunches. The black marker writing is from some of the Urbex guys who visited, no doubt even the one I heard who hid in the fridge from security.<br />
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The porters lodge was next door to it<br />
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Inside were the pigeon holes for the mail that was sent round to the wards. None of these places were to survive a lot longer.<br />
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The next time I saw the kitchen it was being demolished, the 360 making short work of it, <br />
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Looking down on the building showed the roof gone and piles of material for recycling.<br />
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After the first stage was developed this is what the goods area looks like and the area behind the fence is being worked on.</div>
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The corridor with the plants growing through is gone and now looks like this from the inside<br />
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This is looking down from the roof at where the kitchen and loading area used to be, I have as yet to get a photo from the other direction but I will try at a later date. I think it looks a lot better now than how I remember it.<br />
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Billy Blue Eyeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12053172567806569702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197181317162323403.post-85221566793712174622012-10-29T23:14:00.000+00:002024-03-17T09:18:08.246+00:00Ipsden & Henley Wards<br />
This was one of the wards my mother worked in at one time as you can see from the photo of here in the Didcot ward Blog. What you noticed about the ward was that it had wooden panelling along the corridor and a wood and glass partition to the day room, there was also an external corridor that linked it with Didcot & Faringdon wards.<br />
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This was my first view of the ward when I quickly took a photo along the corridor to the day room, note the added partition in the photo.<br />
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There was also this fireplace with what looked like a dumb waiter beside it though it was probably for storing coal in.<br />
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One of the doors lead off to the Male toilets & bathroom and the staff & female toilets which were like you see below.<br />
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Though when the false ceiling was removed you could see the original tile walls which were painted over below the added ceiling. The linen cupboards even had items on the shelves which were in packaging, and I heard later from some of the guys clearing the place that they had thrown packets of straight jackets away, was this what I noticed? <br />
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The packaged items on the shelfs in the Linen cupboard. <br />
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The one thing that struck you about the place was this view you got down the corridor to the day room, the original wood and glass partition.<br />
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Going through took you into an enormous day room with even more wood panelled walls.<br />
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The partition in the day rooms was just as impressive though being cut off at the top by the false ceiling.<br />
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Over to one side there was once a magnificent fireplace which had been taken out and replaced by some cheap piece of crap, there is even an outline above it.<br />
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One wall still had the rotor board on it<br />
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Doors had been modified from time to time with new and old signs.<br />
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Even the ward had been given a partition between the cast supports with some panels of cheap wood.<br />
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There was even an impressive door leading out outside, the stares to the left went to Henley wards an exact copy of Ipsten. The next visit I had I saw this in the day room. They were clearing out the asbestos from under the floor. <br />
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The day room looks very similar with all the wood panelling <br />
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The day room looked even bigger with no partition and the door were stood by the wall awaiting storage<br />
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And the long connecting corridor that went from Ipsden to Didcot ward was taken down.<br />
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At the start of 2012 I popped into building as the doors were open and the painters were working and got this photo of part of the corridor which was now one of the apartments.<br />
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The next time I came back the chippy's were in fixing back the wood panels. This is looking towards where the glass partition used to be and the long corridor used to be. <br />
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One of the bay windows now with French windows installed. <br />
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The guy's used photo's that were downloaded off the Internet to see how the panels used to look (should have asked me) <br />
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By July the place had now become the show home <br />
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The paneling had been painted but was still there. <br />
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Ipsden Court as it is known now<br />
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Billy Blue Eyeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12053172567806569702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197181317162323403.post-67876224961804915262012-10-17T12:56:00.000+01:002024-03-17T09:18:08.085+00:00Faringdon Ward<br />
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This was the first ward I visited when I started my documentation of Fair Mile you always past the entrance when you went round the back by the kitchen.<br />
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If you looked on the door post you would have seen these marks which were made the patents <br />
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These two show the area round the back of the ward. The railings on the left were put up when one of the patients was run over and killed by a truck reversing. Which is probably<span id="goog_1632717044"></span><span id="goog_1632717045"></span> why you see the sign below.<br />
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Through the gate you would have seen this area though neater when the place was occupied.<br />
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This looks across the lawn at the front of Faringdon ward<br />
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This was what the front looked like.<br />
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Going inside showed how bad the place had gotten rundown in the 7 years it was empty.<br />
This is looking down towards the day room.<br />
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The corridor looking towards the kitchen past the bay window.<br />
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Wall painting at the entrance to the day room.<br />
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Looking back long the corridor again towards the kitchen.<br />
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This would have been the day room with chairs in and where they ate their meals.<br />
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Once the place was stripped of the later editions the ward where the beds would have been reviled itself. <br />
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The day room also would have been a lot bigger without the partition as you can see from this photo.<br />
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Even the old toilets reviled a secret, the original ceiling was curved.<br />
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<br />Billy Blue Eyeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12053172567806569702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197181317162323403.post-75693848896468790472012-10-14T23:25:00.000+01:002024-03-17T09:18:08.139+00:00Liveing and learning<br />
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When the place first opened the nurses used to live on site in the wards along with the patents, they used to only get a half day off each week and if you ever wondered where on the ward they lived it would have been in a room like this which as you can see is not very big and most likely cold though this one looks like it has a fireplace which has been blocked up.<br />
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In a previous blog called the OT the first photo was taken from the
kitchen window of Yattenton Ward this was the bedroom of Mrs Brewerton
when she was a young nurse the photo was taken in 1951. When the nurses
got married there were houses in Cholsey where they could live like
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and Papist way. As the place got bigger and the rooms needed accommodation was found elsewhere and properties bought up for staff use. There were three large houses locally which were used. Chalmore in Wallingford. I remember going to a party here back in the 1970's only the next day for my Dad to pull me aside and ask if I was there, when I replied yes he told me a quantity of drugs had been handed into the police. I told him I never saw anything, but my mate said after didn't I smell the dope.<br />
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White Cross in Winterbrook, this was at the bottom of the Wallingford Road and the junction was known as white cross. The place was an hotel but during the war was used as a convalescent home for wounded forces personnel. Berkshire heath authority hung on to it and it became a nurses home.<br />
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Some of the single nurses also lived in accommodation which was on site, I remember visiting one and the loom they lived was quite small with just a single bed a wardrobe chair and basin for washing, the bathroom and kitchen was shared with the others living there.<br />
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This was most likely used as a female block.<br />
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This is one of them which was empty at the time the photo was taken and later sold off. The other pair were knocked into one to provide care in the community for some of the remaining Fairmile patients.<br />
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This was one of the plusher places which was built on site (the old football pitch) and was most likely for one of the higher up doctors or superintendent. It was later used for a children's nursery before the place closed. <br />
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Other places on site were the two houses by the main gate.<br />
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During the 1960's it was realised that more local houseing was needed and so Celsea place was built and it provided more up to date accommodation for many staff who were even given their own allotment gardens along Papist way. These were sold off and Weedon Close was built there in the 1990's<br />
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Some of the students being taught <br />
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Some practical lessons going on here<br />
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And relaxing in one of the lounge areas at the manor</div>
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Moulsford manor was used in the second world war by none other than Sir Winston Churchill who used to come here to get away from it all, I can see why from the photo I took from the other side of the river.</div>
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Towards the end of Fairmiles time the place was sold off and Kevin Maxwell bought the place though I could not tell you if he still lives there or who does. Some history of the place can be read here.<a href="http://www.berkshirehistory.com/castles/moulsford_manor.html" target="_blank"> Moulsford Manor</a></div>
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The club or Fairmile Hospital Sports and Social Club was formed back in the 1960 or at least that is when the clubhouse was built. I used to go up there at 14 as I was an associate member from the fishing club and play snooker on a full size table with my friend. The club was also used for other functions and quite often held Disco's back in the 1960's & 70's </div>
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You could always find people having a drink at one of the two bars in the place which was kept well stocked by the steward Les Collins. </div>
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It was also popular for other celebrations like winning cups at Football or like my Parents having their retirement party there which is something to my shame I don't have a photo of.</div>
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The club just before Christmas 2010 with all the furniture thrown out in a pile<br />
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Some of the club literature the club used to hand out to people, this was found in the room beside the Hall <br />
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The club seen from the window in Goring ward on the 23rd December 2010<br />
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By the middle of January 2011 the place had gone.<br />
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A couple of months later the footings had been dug and they were pouring the cement for the new building.<br />
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It was not many weeks before you started seeing scaffold going up<br />
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Then the prefabricated walls were going into place.<br />
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December 2011 and the building looked like this, not much more to finish it off.<br />
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This is a view of the place where the club used to be taken from one of the buildings built on the old club and staff car park<br />
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And this is the building where the social club used to be. The club stayed popular and was open to associate members and may people from the village took the opportunity to join as one of the perks was cheep beer well at least cheaper that the local pubs. The club carried on serving even after the hospital had shut down right up to a week or so before the site was finally closed up from the public. By then new premises had been found in the form of the lounge at the Morning Star just up the road.</div>
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Billy Blue Eyeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12053172567806569702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1197181317162323403.post-43434089487298070562012-08-28T23:01:00.000+01:002024-03-17T09:18:07.802+00:00Didcot Ward<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This was what was written on the back of the photo by my Mother who is ward Sister in the back center picture. The old lady in the front is one of the patents from the ward. What puzzled me about the picture was the pillar and in the background the building.</div>
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This was Didcot ward party stripped and I could see no indication here it was the ward in the photo.</div>
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Then I came across this one which shows the pillars clearly and in the background the same windows. So by my reckoning the original photo was taken just in front of the near pillar which is on Ipsden ward and the building outside the window is <br />
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the Villa or Newlands as it later became. So it looks like my mum managed to get the wards wrong on this occasion.</div>
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What was the giveaway, well looking at the paint scraped away on the pillars shows at one time it was green, the the photo you can see green pillars.<br />
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This is the ward today you can just make out one of the pillars to the right my Mother would have been just over to the right of the photo. The second photo shows two of the pillars.</div>
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This is Ipsden ward as you see the outside today</div>
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