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Memorial Home for Crippled Children, Rochdale
The Memorial Home for Crippled Children is one of the former names of the Rochdale Children’s Hospital sited, I understand, on Clay Lane, Norden in Rochdale.
The home was founded in the early 1900s, perhaps as early as 1902 (according to the National Archives), as the Memorial Home for Crippled Children. It was built by Walter Scott as a memorial to his wife, Ellen and was run by the Rochdale Crippled Children’s Union. Following the belief that fresh air was a great cure for many illnesses, the building was designed to have open wards for the children who might stay for months or even years.
During the First World War, it was used a military hospital.
From 1948, it came under the auspices of the NHS becoming a hospital rather than a home and was known as the Rochdale Children's Orthopaedic Hospital. After 1962, it became the more familiar Rochdale Children’s Hospital.
The hospital closed in 1982.
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Some information about the home, and other local hospitals, can be found here (external site). http://www.link4life.org/discover/local-history-online/health/hospitals
Some records of the early years before it became part of the NHS are kept by the Rochdale Libraries Local Studies Department
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