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From: GEORGE HIGHTON <>
Subject: Re: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] Xmas
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 07:45:55 +0000 (GMT)
In-Reply-To: <4585D200.4050707@alphalink.com.au>


Could have been Fazacerley Hospital I was in there just befor the war with Diphtheria that was an Isolation Hospital
George

Herbert Seabrooke <> wrote:
Gday Marged
I wouldnt have a clue where i was ,but i did spend abit of time at Alder
Hey about1947 with rheumatic fever.
Bert in Oz

Marged wrote:

>Herbert, I wonder if you were in Alder Hey hospital? My husband spent 11
>months in there during 1942, as the result of a road accident. I suppose
>you would be in the quarantine ward - he was in there for a short time with
>gastro enteritis.
>
>Marged
>
>
>My first memory of christmas was in the very early war years,i was in a
>Liverpool hospital with Scarlet Fever,the bombing was going on and i
>know it was christmas time because i remember the nurse,s singing I,m
>dreaming of a white christmas,we must have been in a cellar or something
>like that because i can still see it today.All my life i have not been
>too fond of christmas time,maybe this has been my hangup.
>New Year is better and i also remember all the ships horns in or on the
>Mersey.
>I come from Litherland and not far from the docks.
>Merry Christmas to all
>Bert in Oz
>
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Cheers George

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