ODHS, High st Westbury on Severn (General)

by Mike Pinchin , Bedford, England, Monday, October 08, 2018, 19:46 (2244 days ago) @ Jefff

By way of interest Westbury Hall was briefly known as Dean Hall in the late 1940s.

BNA Gloucester Citizen - Wednesday 20 October 1948

On the recommendation of the Westbury-on-Severn hostel committee, it was agreed that new wireless equipment should be installed to serve both the residential accommodation and the hospital wards, and that the Infirmary should be renamed Dean Hall

BNA Gloucester Citizen - Wednesday 16 February 1949

Westbury—Not " Dean " —Hall

Owing to the confusion and inconvenience which, it was stated, had been caused to relatives and friends of patients and residents at the Welfare Hostel at Westbury-on-Severn through the adoption of the name " Dean Hall," the Hostel Committee reported having given further consideration to the matter. Several alternative names were proposed, it was stated, and eventually the name was changed to " Westbury Hall."