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Eric · 29-11-2007, 00:51

A very simple question to fill a blank. What was the name of the hospital in Accrington. I don't know what street it was on, but it was on the old #1 bus route from Clayton to Ossy? And is it still there?

BERNADETTE · 29-11-2007, 01:03

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Originally Posted by Eric

A very simple question to fill a blank. What was the name of the hospital in Accrington. I don't know what street it was on, but it was on the old #1 bus route from Clayton to Ossy? And is it still there?

Accrington Victoria Community Hospital. The main entrance was on Thorneyholme Road.

Eric · 29-11-2007, 04:19

That's it. Thanks. I remember looking at it almost daily as I took the bus to school. The name would just not come to me.

Ber999T · 29-11-2007, 06:34

Not Thornyholme Rd for main entrace but Heywood Rd

WillowTheWhisp · 29-11-2007, 08:06

It's still there but a mere shadow of its former self. We have to go to Blackburn for most things now. Here are some photos I took a little while ago.

The road where you passed it in the bus on the way to Clayton was Whalley Road - that's still the bus route to Clayton.

panther · 29-11-2007, 09:37

Iremember when there was a maternity ward there, and many a times going to casulty for a broken arm

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same they had to shut it, you cant even have xrays there now I believe

emamum · 29-11-2007, 09:44

i was at the minor injuries clinic the other day and there was a sign saying to ring the bell if you had x rays.. the clinic was brilliant!! we dont have a doctor yet so i took my lad up there with ear ache, your seen by a nurse and then by the doctor, like in a a&e,

cherokee · 30-11-2007, 00:01

It was very sad to see this close . my mum was a nurse there on the female medical ward and i rem having my appendix out there .. it was spotlessly clean and well run . and went there with my first child . ..
ahhh the days ..

MITZY · 30-11-2007, 07:21

In days gone by it was known locally as The Cottage Hospital but no idea why, just remember my mum calling it that.

Eric · 30-11-2007, 19:32

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Originally Posted by MITZY

In days gone by it was known locally as The Cottage Hospital but no idea why, just remember my mum calling it that.

Yeah, I remember that too.

AccyMad · 01-12-2007, 15:21

My youngest son was born at Accy Vic - what a different experience it was to when I had my eldest at Queens Park five years earlier - such a shame the maternity unit closed there.