Northfield is found 7 miles South of Birmingham city center, UK, and is a suburb of the city on the A38 main road South to Bristol. The village was mentioned in the Domesday book as Nordfeld. Please leave your comments underneath. Comeback soon & enjoy visit here.

Hollymoor Hospital (WWI)



Hollymoor Hospital circa. 1915. Used during WWI for recovering soldiers and later resumed as a lunatic asylum, now my doctors surgery, explains much, lol In 1935 it had 666 patients and Rubery buildings had over 800.

The Gate House at Hollymoor (still there today) Chapel in background. Now the entrance to a Dentist & Doctor's surgery on Frankly Beeches Road.
1910 map shows the size of the hospital and it had it's own railway that connected to Rubery Station.
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  1. Unknown20 November 2020 at 11:15

    My Grandfather Ernest John Smith of 19 Bridge Street, Chilvers Coton, Nuneaton Warwickshire, served here in the Royal Army Medical Corp as an orderly, between March 1915 and January 1917. Before being transferred to RAMC Training Centre, Blackpool and then on to France.

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  2. Mickey Nold14 May 2021 at 08:08

    Thanks Unknown? who's been doing the family tree I wonder :-)

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