HAMPTON / Hygrove HOUSE, Minsterworth 1950's (General)

by goudgess, Tuesday, December 30, 2014, 14:17 (3617 days ago) @ Jefff

Thanks, Jeff. I understand from someone whose aunt was a live-in cook at HH, that it was privately owned by Mr and Mrs Leonard Thurston until they retired in the mid 60's and then the County Council took it on. This person also tells me that there were several wooden huts in the grounds of HH: she wonders whether it may have been a temporary military hospital after the insurance company gave it up?

She also says that it wasn't so much a place specifically for the elderly: she knew of a boy who had had a brain haemorrahage who was there: other patients used to help out in the garden and doing odd jobs as a means of recuperation.

I have emailed Glos archives and am awaiting their reply.

Sarah