The CLINIC!!!!
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Oh....don't remind me! That is where my fear of dentists stemmed from.
They scared me to death.......having fillings done there was hellish.......I remember being held down by a meaty(fat) dental nurse......I wriggled and squealed but it didn't get me anywhere.......I still eneded up having my tooth drilled and filled.
The long term repercussions were that I went for more that 40 years without seeing a dentist.
I have only recently overcome this fear....thanks to the patience and kindness of the dentist at Oak House.
They scared me to death.......having fillings done there was hellish.......I remember being held down by a meaty(fat) dental nurse......I wriggled and squealed but it didn't get me anywhere.......I still eneded up having my tooth drilled and filled.
The long term repercussions were that I went for more that 40 years without seeing a dentist.
I have only recently overcome this fear....thanks to the patience and kindness of the dentist at Oak House.
Groove remembers actually looking forward to having half a day off school and being gassed to have extractions, in his naivety...Groove is still scared of dentists till this day. He remembers coming out through the waiting room in tears, with a blood stained bandage held to his mouth. Heaven forbid a nervous patient was in that waiting room-they'd have ran a mile
Cheers beechy, thought that was the script.
by the way are yeh going to the Peel Park Inn Nov 22 nd fer the St.Johns Reunion? tis a good night.
I remember going there with my mum to take my brother and sister(twins) when they were babies, early 1950s. They were weighed in a scale with a big pan and we got cod liver oil and orange juice concentrate in a bottle with a blue top.
Wasn't it a wooden building with gates out the front?
Wasn't it a wooden building with gates out the front?
I remember the Burnley clinic,,where kids came back to school with big patches over their lazy eyes,,,and others had purple blotches everywhere,,,,sheese
Yeah my mum used to know him. He was called Reggie Clayton and he had a daughter Elaine.
Our dentist was in the first block on Whalley Road past the top of Milnshaw Lane, above Thornbers chemist. His name was Dougie Payton and he had a bristly moustache and glasses and a wry neck. I used to find it terrifying when he loomed over you in the chair.
Our doctor was next door to the dentist. His name was Dr Lancett-Edwards, a really good name for a doctor!
Never went to the dentist at the Clinic, but had plenty of jabs there - polio, diptheria, smallpox etc.
Some years after Dougie Payton Died I met his widow who had married a well know local cricker called Tommy Law, in fact he died not to long ago and I think his grandson is a member on here
I used to go to Douglas Payton for the dentist but my memory of the Cannon Street Clinic is having to go their for my BCG vaccination because I was off school when they were done there. Kids from all over the town who had missed their jabs were there and we had to line up down a corridor. A girl went in first and started screaming her head off. We were all looking at each other wondering what sort of needle they were using and where they might be sticking it until we heard the nurse tell her to shut up because she hadn't done anything yet. Happy days!
My memory of the clinic was going there for what I guess was a polio jab in '55 or '56.
There had been an outbreak somewhere in the North of England so all children were called in for either their first or a booster jab.
Looking back the really worrying thing is that because my mother knew the nurse doing the jabs she made sure I got 'the new needle'. (So how many poor souls / needle?) No wonder the kiddie in front of me howled like a banshee.
Rgds
John45378
There had been an outbreak somewhere in the North of England so all children were called in for either their first or a booster jab.
Looking back the really worrying thing is that because my mother knew the nurse doing the jabs she made sure I got 'the new needle'. (So how many poor souls / needle?) No wonder the kiddie in front of me howled like a banshee.
Rgds
John45378
The old needle would have been a multi use one(makes me shudder when I think of it).......they were blunter than a butter knife, having pierced endless rubber bungs and the as many again skins....you probably got one of the first disposable needles. Much kinder and much safer too.
Wa Margaret, can remember when the flue jab came out at first, the first aide guy at Shopfitters Tom Davies used to do the deed, it was a matter of getting in first while the needle was still sharp
Consider yourself fortunate , Wyn .
It wasn't an experience to be recommended .
Oh don't remind me, I went to see the optician there.
Irene B (was Davies)
Irene B (was Davies)