Wyndale Nursing Home

Vig53 wrote on Tue Aug 30, 2022 11:58pm:

I was born at Wyndale in 1953, it was on the site of office block opposite Turquoise restaurant, formerly occupied by Servisair. The Matron was a lady called Miss Wynn who used to ride around the village on a type of tricycle she turned the wheels with her hands using a contraption on the handle ...

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...bars! Probably a very early form of mobility scooter. I don’t think there’s any pictures around but I vaguely remember the building. My brother and a school friend were also born there!

Nikki Fisher wrote on Wed Aug 31, 2022 10:46am:

Hi, thank you for coming back to me. I justwondered if you knew when the building was knocked down. My brother was also born there and his friend’s mother died there in February 1962. I find it strange that there are no records about the nursing home.

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Nikki

Vig53 wrote on Wed Aug 31, 2022 10:58am:

I don’t know when it was demolished and sadly nobody still around who would know. If you find any more info I would be interested to know. I celebrated my 50th in 2003 opposite where I was born at The Orange Tree (the Vic pub) and it was still Servisair then. Sorry not much help!

Nikki Fisher wrote on Wed Aug 31, 2022 12:15pm:

Thanks for reply-Tbh I came to a dead end a couple of years ago. There are lots of things I’d like to know about the home and the running of it but unfortunately my mum died a few years ago and my dad doesn’t remember much about the nursing home as in those days father’s weren’t encourage...

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...d to get involved other than pay the bill! I just find it strange that it wasn’t overseen by any kind of medical trust. I do know when I contacted the Bramhall historical society that there was a retired doctor who lived in Bramhall who had a surgery there during the time that Wyndale was a nursing home but I never heard from him after I left my contact details.

Vig53 wrote on Wed Aug 31, 2022 2:10pm:

The Doctor who would have attended was Dr Greenhalgh who’s house containing the surgery was on the site where Bramhall Medical Centre now stands. It was a private nursing home and most of my family were born there. Dr Greenhalgh and his wife continued to live in Bramhall after retirement and kn...

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...ew everyone in the Village as it was then, no houses on Dairyground or little Australia estate just fields. Pownall green was where School Mews is now and secondary schools were in Cheadle, so all very different but a great place to grow up in.

Vig53 wrote on Wed Aug 31, 2022 2:10pm:

The Doctor who would have attended was Dr Greenhalgh who’s house containing the surgery was on the site where Bramhall Medical Centre now stands. It was a private nursing home and most of my family were born there. Dr Greenhalgh and his wife continued to live in Bramhall after retirement and kn...

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...ew everyone in the Village as it was then, no houses on Dairyground or little Australia estate just fields. Pownall green was where School Mews is now and secondary schools were in Cheadle, so all very different but a great place to grow up in.