5 Comments Posted by Richards

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This is the photo that is most like the staircase I remember from about 1950 ish. If it is the one, there is a doorway to a dining room near where the photographer is standing.
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For a while I think we might have stayed in rooms just off a staircase like this one. In about 1951, until our accommodation was ready. Though I just don't remember where we actually lived. There were houses there for doctors' families, because we visited one a number of times. There were French windows, and a nice garden outside them.
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This reminds me of the staircase I used to play on while talking to one of the cleaning staff - back in about 1950 or 1951. There was a lot of dark polished wood, panelling. And a room with a long polished wood table where all the doctors and other senior staff ate their midday meal. If I was spotted in the doorwary or on the stairs opposite this dining room, I would be lifted onto a chair next to one of the doctors (a cushion first being put on it so I coudl reach), and given a plate with some lunch on it.
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This resembles my memory of the staircase opposite the dining room that the medical staff had their lunches in.
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I lived at this hospital in about 1950, for only one or two years. I remember being pushed along a gravel drive, with flower beds close by, to visit the home of one of the doctors who worked at the hospital. The doctor must have had a house on-site (does that make sense?). The doctor and his wife had french windows in their sitting room with long chintzy curtains that blew around in the breeze. It could have been at this hospital that there was what seemed like a huge dining room where the medical staff ate their lunch. Occasionally I was there, put on a chair with cushions, and offered some lunch. This dining room was off a corridor near an entrance door, I think, and there were carpeted stairs going up opposite the dining room door. Possibly they led to the flat we lived in for a while. But I was only 18 months to 2 years old, so I might be remembering it wrongly.