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[sherwoodkirkby]

I am interested to know if the building once known as COWLEY HILL MATERNITY HOSPITAL closed in 1971 still exists & the street number at Cowley Hill Lane if it is still there.

[non sibi sed omnibus]

Hi there are various Large buildings still in Cowley Hill Lane.A number of them near to what was Cowley Girls School are used by the NHS-I believe one was the old maternity hospital.However there is one building that was RUTLAND HOUSE VETS that is being demolished to be replaced with a more up to date vets structure.

[Olliebeak]

I always thought that the buildings that housed Cowley Hill Maternity Hospital were those in between Rutland Street/Balker Drive (Balker Drive being the road at the side of the small park gate on Cowley Hill Lane).

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Edited by Olliebeak, 09 December 2011 - 02:01 PM.

[Dave]

You're right Ollie. Some of the buildings labelled Halton and St Helens Primary Care Trust were a part of that old hospital.

[sherwoodkirkby]

Hi, thanks for any info, I was born there, now live in Aus and wish to visit.

[Olliebeak]

Good luck with your visit, sherwoodkirkby - hope you manage to find any places that you're interested in seeing.

If there's any further help that you need - just shout up. There's always somebody on here who can help or, at least point you in the right direction

[HORT]

Ollie, once again you are correct.

The Hospital building is the large white house set back from Cowley Hill Lane. It is in Balker Drive and I was born there.

[glassman]

my daughter was born there 10th Nov 1971, discharged about the 24th Nov I have no recollection of hospital closing within a month, so 1971 closure questionable.

my daughter was born there 10th Nov 1971, discharged about the 24th Nov I have no recollection of hospital closing within a month, so 1971 closure questionable.

[jeb]

spent many a night sat on the park wall with the nurses in balker drive 1946 47 time

[DJGAZZA]

I was in Cowley Hill Maternity Hospital once but I don't remember much about it LOL

[tessmop]

My friend had her son in Cowley Hill Hospital in March 1973 it closed not long after that.

[SWIMMER]

I was born in Cowley Hill too, in 1954

[Olliebeak]

One of my sisters, next one down from me, was born there in 1953. Mum was so disgusted with the cockroaches that she saw, she wouldn't go near the place again after that. For my next sister, in 1956, she was back at Whiston. When it came to baby no.4 in 1960 - my brother - she opted for a 'home delivery'.

[DJGAZZA]

Did he come via City LInk? LOL

[Olliebeak]