Wordsley/Ridge Hill History and more

Wordsley/Ridge Hill History and more Wordsley and Ridge Hill Hospital information page. Photographs, history, experiences, memories and more.

22/01/2024

From Glenys Horton.

Hello. I would just like to put a comment on the page. My old flatmate, friend, and work colleague, Sister Jill Tomlinson, died at the weekend. She was a sister in Annexe Theatre at Wordsley and at Russell's Hall Hospital. She was aged 65 and was 2 weeks short of getting her State Pension. May you rest in eternal peace, Jill.

10/04/2021

Just a quick post to say we are so grateful to all those who have submitted photos and stories.

Hello all, more photos received via Peter GeorgeWordsley Hospital Laundry and Annex wards where plastic surgery was carr...
02/05/2020

Hello all, more photos received via Peter George
Wordsley Hospital Laundry and Annex wards where plastic surgery was carried out.
Thanks for these Peter, much appreciated. More will follow tomorrow.

Another great photo sent by Peter George taken of A block from the Clock Tower. Peter would climb the clock tower twice ...
16/02/2020

Another great photo sent by Peter George taken of A block from the Clock Tower. Peter would climb the clock tower twice a week to manually wind up the clock. The instructions that Peter rigidly followed are attached.
The clock was restored by the original
clock makers family into full working order when the Clock Tower was converted into apartments.
Photo of the clock tower sent by Sue Garden, thank you both so much for these. Greatly appreciated.

This is the Guardians Board Room which is the earliest remaining structure on the site and the last building associated ...
08/12/2019

This is the Guardians Board Room which is the earliest remaining structure on the site and the last building associated with the workhouse.
It was built in 1883-1884 and was erected for the Board of Guardians of the workhouse, designed by Smalman Smith. It has now been tastefully converted into apartments.
The names Guardians and Smalman in relation to the history of the site, now have streets named after them.

24/11/2019

Thankyou to everyone who has contributed and we now have plenty of history to be going through.

We are still looking for any strange or spooky experiences from people who have worked or lived on the site as these are on the next list of items to be working with to be able to tie any experiences up with maybe former history of the site.

We have had about twenty unexplained experiences so far but would like and need a lot more if you are willing to share them with us.

Please forward these onto us via the send message button on the page and if any of your friends/family are not on the page who could maybe offer us anything then again let us know.

Many thanks

We’re now commencing the task of putting all the information together. Many thanks to Sue Garden and Peter George for p...
10/11/2019

We’re now commencing the task of putting all the information together. Many thanks to Sue Garden and Peter George for providing more photos and information.

If there’s anyone with anything further to add we’ll need this within the next two to three weeks if possible. So If you can spread the word and share the page that would be perfect.

We’re looking for anything history wise or strange occurrences on the site(s) if possible.

Please ask around and obviously everyone who has contributed will be credited and cited as relevant.

Also those who have provided anything which we will need to explore more will be contacted in the near future.

Many thanks, once again.

Demolition photo attached

Morning everyone, I’m still collecting information, and to be honest the offers of photos etc and information is phenome...
08/11/2019

Morning everyone, I’m still collecting information, and to be honest the offers of photos etc and information is phenomenal. I am extremely grateful to all who have helped me bring this together. I would never have envisaged that what started as a small piece of research has grown so much.
Thankyou to Sue Garden for this photo showing the demolition of one of the buildings on the hospital site.

05/11/2019

Good evening everyone, there has been loads of information flooding in which we are in the process of going through. We are extremely grateful to all the lovely people who have sent photos and reference material.

We’ll be keeping this page updated frequently.
Thanks to you all for the likes and shares, and please keep sharing.

If anyone knows of any of the porter team or other long term staff who worked at the hospital then please let us know via the send message button at the top of this page.

Many thanks

http://www.kingswinford.com/wordsley/suworkhouse.htmInteresting information about the workhouse as was.Thankyou to every...
03/11/2019

http://www.kingswinford.com/wordsley/suworkhouse.htm

Interesting information about the workhouse as was.

Thankyou to everyone for all the information and photos you have been sending. Please keep it coming.

Also please keep asking around for people with any fond or not so fond memories.

Thanks to Sue Garden for these photos of the modern parts of the hospital,as it was before demolition. Some of the old b...
02/11/2019

Thanks to Sue Garden for these photos of the modern parts of the hospital,as it was before demolition. Some of the old buildings still remain and have been tastefully converted into homes.

From Peter GeorgeHere are 2 pictures of my dad at Wordsley Hospital, the building was the Lodge (Gate House where he wor...
01/11/2019

From Peter George
Here are 2 pictures of my dad at Wordsley Hospital, the building was the Lodge (Gate House where he worked) staff went into it to clock into work and clock out again. He recorded the coal lorry's weight so he new how much coal was in them

Thanks for the photos Peter

01/11/2019

Thanks for the info Karen Villa, please follow Karen’s kind advice if you would please......

Not sure if you’re aware...?
But if people on the page click on the “community” option on the top of the page; they can invite all their friends to join the page.

01/11/2019

Morning everyone, more and more posts flooding in via various channels, keep sharing and encourage likes so we can reach as many local, interested people as possible. More photos to come later.

Thankyou to Peter George for this photo, (not sure of the date though). (William A George took it) he worked for the h...
31/10/2019

Thankyou to Peter George for this photo, (not sure of the date though). (William A George took it) he worked for the hospital for 36 years as the Gate Porter in the Lodge by the Main Entrance, he opened the big gates to let the coal lorry,s and Ambulances in.

Thankyou to Alan Horton who worked on the hospital radio at Wordsley Hospital.Here’s what he told us,,We interviewed Joh...
31/10/2019

Thankyou to Alan Horton who worked on the hospital radio at Wordsley Hospital.

Here’s what he told us,,

We interviewed John Taylor of Duran Duran and he told us Simon La Bon was getting married we knew before any other media outlet we also interviwed Neil Kinnock ahead of the other TV and radio broadcasters there on the day

Thankyou to Alan Graham for these photographs taken at the Hospital
31/10/2019

Thankyou to Alan Graham for these photographs taken at the Hospital

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