Chase Farm Hospital

[caliope]

Hello everyone,

Can any kind person tell me if there was a hospital in Nottingham called Chase Farm? I know my mother did her nursing training in Nottingham and it was at Chase Farm. There was even a little ditty she use to sing "When we leave Chase Farm forever, oh how happy we will be....". The problem is, when I google Chase Farm hospital, I can only see one in Enfield.

Can anyone help?

Thanks

[Mutley]

What time frame are you talking about?

There is an article here (http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/public-affairs/press-releases/index.phtml?menu=pressreleases&code=ECZ-256/07&create_date=27-nov-2007)about a study concerning eczema sufferers dated 2007. It is by clinicians at The University of Nottingham and one of the centres is Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield.

If you read the article there is definitely a link between the two.

[Mutley]

There also seems to be a connection between Gedling Colliery and Chase Farm but for the life of me, at the moment, I cannot work it out

[caliope]

The time frame was the early 1950's. I've seen a picture of a hospital in Nottingham that had a rounded part to it that she said she trained at but she also definitely talked about Chase Farm.

Curious!

[michaelpipe]

A search in a2a also only comes up with Chase Farm Hospital, Enfield.

Michael

[babygirl101]

It might be worth contacting the Nottingham University. Nottingham is renowned for its school of medicine and they may well be able to tell you which hospital she trained at.

Also this website might be a starting point:-

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/mss/about/

I'm from Nottingham and the only hospital that sounds familiar from your description would have been the old female (gynae) hospital. There are 2 options that come to mind re Chase Farm it could have been a TB hospital or possibly a mental health institution, not sure why I think that though, so I could be completely wrong on that (she says waiting to be shot down in flames).

Hope this helps

BG :D

[Penny Gallo]

Although it has long since been converted into luxury apartments and a trendy bar, the former Women's Hospital up on Standard Hill in the centre of Nottingham has a circular building which faces the street. This was certainly running during the 1950s.

[babygirl101]

Although it has long since been converted into luxury apartments and a trendy bar, the former Women's Hospital up on Standard Hill in the centre of Nottingham has a circular building which faces the street. This was certainly running during the 1950s.


I've carried on looking at that website and have found an old photo which I think confirms mine & Penny's recollection.

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/mss/collections/health/collections/womens.phtml

BG

[caliope]

Thank you to all for your quick replies!

Mutley and Michael, I got the same results you did when I googled Chase Farm. Perhaps she started her training at Nottingham and finished it at Chase Farm?

Penny and Babygirl, thank you for your personal remembrances and information! My mother was also trained as a midwife so the women's hospital info does seem to tie in. I found the picture I was told is part of the hospital my mother trained at. Does it look familiar?

I won't be surprised if the bottom link doesn't work as I'm probably the most computer illiterate person on the planet! :)


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[babygirl101]

Thank you to all for your quick replies!

Mutley and Michael, I got the same results you did when I googled Chase Farm. Perhaps she started her training at Nottingham and finished it at Chase Farm?

Penny and Babygirl, thank you for your personal remembrances and information! My mother was also trained as a midwife so the women's hospital info does seem to tie in. I found the picture I was told is part of the hospital my mother trained at. Does it look familiar?

I won't be surprised if the bottom link doesn't work as I'm probably the most computer illiterate person on the planet! :)


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Hi Caliope

Yes the link does work and the building looks familiar. I've forwarded it to my sister who still lives in Nottingham as I think she'll know where it is. When I get a reply I'll let you know.

BG

[Mitch in Notts]

Caliope,

The photo is of St James Terrace looking north. The Circular building is roughly on the corner of St James Terrace/Postern Street/Mount Street junction I believe.
We`ve never heard of Chase Farm in this household and we are local.

Mitch

[Mutley]

There also seems to be a connection between Gedling Colliery and Chase Farm but for the life of me, at the moment, I cannot work it out

This is the link I was looking for regarding the Chase Farm site at Gelding (http://www.gedling.gov.uk/index/ac-home/ac-news-archive/ac-news-article.htm?newsid=27767).
Maybe a local can explain it.

[Penny Gallo]

Yes, Caliope, the circular building you linked to is the former Women's (Gynae) hospital in Nottingham. xxx Penny

[babygirl101]

Yes, Caliope, the circular building you linked to is the former Women's (Gynae) hospital in Nottingham. xxx Penny

Just heard back from my sis and, Penny, I agree with you about the building. She hasn't heard of Chase Farm either, I'm beginning to think your mother must have done part of her training down south. I can't recall any connection between the Chase Farm that Mutley referred to and medicine - I'll keep working on it though, in the meantime it might be work an email to Gedling Borough Council, they should be able to give a definitive answer to it.

BG

[Mitch in Notts]

Mutley

To quote:

"This is the link I was looking for regarding the Chase Farm site at Gelding.
Maybe a local can explain it".

Chase Farm is the name of an actual Farm off Mapperley Plains & borders the former Gedling Colliery site. I presume that the land from Chase Farm is being developed as part of the Gedling Colliery build.
We don`t know of any old hospital buildings in that vicinity as it still is (just) fairly rural.

Mitch

[babygirl101]

Mutley

To quote:

"This is the link I was looking for regarding the Chase Farm site at Gelding.
Maybe a local can explain it".

Chase Farm is the name of an actual Farm off Mapperley Plains & borders the former Gedling Colliery site. I presume that the land from Chase Farm is being developed as part of the Gedling Colliery build.
We don`t know of any old hospital buildings in that vicinity as it still is (just) fairly rural.

Mitch

Mitch

Just a thought, if it's just off Mapperley Plains could it be linked with the old Mapperely mental hospital??

BG

[caliope]

Thank you for your help, everyone! :D

I'm glad to be able to confirm that the rounded building was part of a Nottingham hospital and the fact that it was a women's hospital ties in nicely to my mum's midwifery training. Perhaps she did complete part of her training in Enfield as I know my mother did live in the London area for a bit before emigrating. I just always assumed that Chase Farm Hospital was in Nottingham because she never mentioned going to London to finish training. I've remembered the rest of the words in the little song she would sometimes sing and wonder now if Chase Farm may have been some sort of nursing college now that I know there is no hospital in Nottingham with that name.

I'll try an email to the Gedling Borough Council as suggested, BG, and see if they can help. It's funny you should mention old Mapperely mental hospital as my mum was a psychiatric nursing supervisor.

[Mutley]

Blimey Mate!

I am a Londoner now living in Portugal and Nottingham is way off my beaten track. But the thread has been interesting and I wish you much luck. ;)

[caliope]

Thank you, Mutley, for your interest and kind wishes. :)

[babygirl101]

I've asked a colleague at work about Chase Farm as she did her medical training in Nottingham and spent part of her time at Mapperely Mental Hospital, but she doesn't recall a Chase Farm at all and thinks it must have been the one in Enfield.

BG

[caliope]

This is what I'm thinking now as well. Thanks for all your help, BG. :)