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• Re: Brooke willis home , pensby [ the 90's] by JOZEF DAWSON (Member 10256780) on 17-Jan-2011
  Hi i went there from 84>86 and im trying to find any of the staff from then ,thanks

• Re: Brooke willis home , pensby [ the 90's] by john birch (Member 10256795) on 17-Jan-2011
  hi i went there myself most of the staff from there work in chrildrens services near the old burn ave baths in birkenhead not sure the right address it looks like a block of flats with a car park and a rear entrance try street view on google maps i hope this has been helpfull im john birch dont now if i was there when you were
  i havnt got any photos but the social services must have some in arch
  ive all the best john
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• Re: Brooke willis home , pensby [ the 90's] by john (Member 10259239) on 16-Mar-2011
  ite john its pudy how u doin kid hows ye sis jen get in touch kid pyad@hotmail.co.uk :)

• Re: Brooke willis home , pensby [ the 90's] by john (Member 10259239) on 16-Mar-2011
  i was in brooke willis early 90's (john pude) and would like to get in touch wid any one who was there at that time for a trip down memory lane hahaaaa chill guys :)

• Re: Brooke willis home , pensby [ the 90's] by JOZEF DAWSON (Member 10256780) on 8-Jul-2011
  Thanks for the info john

• Re: Christopher Gregory by Chris Wilke (Member 10226231) on 15-May-2008
  Hi, I noticed your posting on the net while searching Lawson Brown, my old school. I did not know Chris but checked up the white pages and the only Gregory listed is a HC Gregory 73 Irvine st Central. 041 5824282 I do if he or she is related but I hope this helps. In 1975 I was in std 5 at Greenwood and also used to go to the Ice rink on the beachfront. Good luck with your search.
  
  Regards
  Chris Wilke

• Re: Christopher Gregory by Anette Benson nee Dobson (Member 10212868) on 5-Jul-2010
  Thanks for the info.
  
  Regards
  Anette

• Re: JOHN MAXWELL by mdf (Member 10202166) on 19-Feb-2007
  he wasnt pushing her through a hedge he was nicking her crisps and marsbar the fat bastard

• Re: JOHN MAXWELL by Hugh Jass (Member 10011536) on 23-Oct-2007
  Aye...and he was "pushing" her with his weinie...right? Dirty sod.

• Re: STEVEN RYAN by kaytie (Member 10208494) on 24-May-2007
  daz his brother lives in neston now i think

• Re: STEVEN RYAN by Martyn Greenwood (Member 10232777) on 16-Oct-2008
  Hey hun, I used to work with steve in wallesey. his dad still lives in fishers lane but he has moved to leeds. I can give you a contact telephone number if you want

• Re: pensby childrens home 1971to 1973 by jkjd (Member 10120211) on 1-Jun-2004
  is this the same place as Thingwall childrens hospital which is now Murrayfield

• Re: pensby childrens home 1971to 1973 by joanne boyes (Member 10125552) on 16-Jun-2004
  thank you for thr reply jkjd

• Re: pensby childrens home 1971to 1973 by jkjd (Member 10120211) on 28-Jun-2004
  HI JOANNE YOU DIDNT ANSWER MY QUESTION ABOUT THINGWALL CHILDRENS HOSPIAL IS IT THE SAME ONE, IF SO I WOULD HAVE BEEN IN THERE ABOUT THE SAME TIME AS YOU I THINK

• Re: pensby childrens home 1971to 1973 by andrewplatt (Member 10127812) on 6-Jul-2004
  my mother worked at thingwall hospital in the 70,sher name was pam platt

• Re: pensby childrens home 1971to 1973 by jkjd (Member 10120211) on 9-Jul-2004
  hello Andrew, was your mum a nurse, I was in Thingwall Hospital about 1977, ask your mum was the hospital school teacher Mr Massey, thanks

• Re: pensby childrens home 1971to 1973 by Lesley (Member 10165148) on 11-Sep-2006
  Hi Joanne Boyes, I went to Pensby Childrens Home/hospital around that time. I remember it well. I was there for about a year. Please get back in touch.

• Re: pensby childrens home 1971to 1973 by liz (Member 10197966) on 21-Nov-2006
  i have been trying for years to find out about `pensby wing` as i remember it called. is this the same place? it was situated on the corner of fishers lane and irby road, opposite pensby boys school.i was there about 1968 but not certain. no-one can tell me anything about it.does anyone know if there are any records of the place.

• Re: pensby childrens home 1971to 1973 by joanne boyes (Member 10201589) on 24-Jan-2007
  thank you for replys, i have only just found them and got a shoak with replys. i am trying to reply to people but not unsure how this site works so this is my email address joanne.boyes@tiscali.co.uk i still would love to talk to someone who went to pensby childrens h/h

• Re: pensby childrens home 1971to 1973 by joanne boyes (Member 10201589) on 24-Jan-2007
  what i remember about Pensby, was a hall where mums and dads came to vist, small dinning room, having your own tin for sweets, my was lime green, getting hair brushed by the older kids sat in a line may 3 or 4 of us. bedroom down stairs, beds in a line big wardrode at the end of the room. bedroom up stairs for the older kids i think. wendy houses outside, think two. play emquement, rings swings.
  making papper flowers and picture that went on the wall.. hated the food as was made to sit and eat it befor leaving the table. one kid kicking off and throwning, i think chairs at night. a one nurse having a frovart and bring the boy in the bed next to me a choclate biskit every night and reading him a story. sorry about spelling!
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• Re: pensby childrens home 1977/78 by Carl Blair (Member 10216970) on 21-Nov-2007
  Stumbled onto the 'knowhere' site and amazed to see reference to Pensby childrens home.
  I was there, by my reckoning, in 1977. I was a 3rd year in Junior school and was about 8 or 9 years old.
  Anyone have any details or records about the place or anything of interest, other sites perhaps? Worst memory being force fed fish which they knew I had an allergy to and the sweet tins and trip to knowsl
  ey safari.
  As far as i know it was nothing to do with Thingwall hospital in name, I was reffered by a specialist called Llewellyn based at
  Clatterbridge hospital.
  
  email address is carl.blair@bms.com
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• Re: pensby childrens home 1971to 1973 by Cedric Levy (Member 10225495) on 29-Apr-2008
  I was in Thingwall for 13 years on and off. I remember all the carry on as if it was yesterday. LOL. From sneaking out at night to the school at the back, from the lifeboat dingy that used to be filled with water on the football pitch. Getting chased by a bull on the farmers field at the back. Going for walks with the vicor every Sunday. Going in the storage hut where the where the merry go round
  was. Has anyone got any old pictures love to here from anyone with regards to this message. Ced
  meced63@hotmail.com
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• Re: pensby childrens home 1971to 1973 by TOM DAVIES (Member 10230383) on 12-Aug-2008
  I WAS THERE IN 1971,I REMEMBER SISTER SEDDON,NURSE SKINNER,AND MY MATE MICHEAL PARKINSON.I ALSO REMEMBER THE LIFEBOAT AND AN OLD TAXI CAB, ASWELL AS THE OLD DOG THAT ROAMED AROUND THE PLACE.THERE WERE TWO DORMS UPSTAIRS AND A LARGER DORM DOWN STAIRS NEAR THE KITCHEN.THERE WAS ALSO A MOBILE SCHOOL ON SITE.

• Re: pensby childrens home 1971to 1973 by d corcoran (Member 10232956) on 22-Oct-2008
  Hello, I'm looking for anyone who went to this home in the 1990's and remembers a Tom Nagel[ please get in contact even if you don't remember him ] thanks Deborah

• Re: pensby childrens home 1971to 1973 by Lesley (Member 10165148) on 6-Apr-2009
  Yes i thought i would add more information. I remember Nurse Parker, she was my favourite and Nurse Scott, she was my least favourite. I remember going home at the weekends and every Friday we used to have a boiled egg for our tea in this sort of playhouse/shed/hut outside.
  
  I remember playing in the childrens prams outside and being taught, like a nursery in this mobil outside. My best friend
  was a boy called Roddy and he had curly hair.
  The dorms were big with one wall at the end being this massive wardrobe. I think my dorm was downstairs. Tinned plum tomatoes aays remind me of the place, so we must have eaten them there.
  
  It was so long ago really have to strain my memory. Also there was this boat outde that we used to play on. Am i right???
  
  Would love to hear more stories...Lesley. I was about 3 yrs old. So it would have been about 1970.
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• Re: pensby childrens home 1971to 1973 by Andy Roberts (Member 10237632) on 21-May-2009
  Hi, I was at Pensby Childrens Wing in 1972/73 i think? My best Pal was a lad named Paul and if i remember he lived there 24/7 unlike the rest of us that when home on a friday and come back on Sunday evening. I remeber the Taxi and another car in the ground, the hall where parents would come and visit(mine never did) and having to have a bath every night ohhh i hated that.
  

• Re: pensby childrens home 1971to 1973 by Andy Roberts (Member 10237632) on 21-May-2009
  If anyone would like to have a chat about our time at Pensby Childrens Wind then please contact me.
  Is the Building still there?

• Re: pensby childrens home 1971to 1973 by bill sinnott (Member 10240739) on 18-Sep-2009
  I spent some time there around 1966/8. I do'nt remember alot except that I missed my family. I also do'nt know why I was sent there? Years later I was working in Pensby hospital for a decorating contractor and I met a nurse who actually remembered me from the home. Would be interested to know any info about the place now.

• Re: pensby childrens home 1971to 1973 by carole hurst (Member 10243772) on 13-Jan-2010
  hi i was at pensby childrens wing about 1970 to 1977 off and on. i remember the sweet tins and the bedrooms the downstairs bedroom was for the younger kids and the two upstairs were for the older kids one for the boys and one for the girls i was upstairs in the girls bedroom.my best friend was liz studley.does anyone remember mr jackson the teacher we use to go for walks to the dales and the dunge
  ns and he use to have a lot of plants.and there was mrs harris who came after school and do activetys.and sister ledsham.we use to go horse riding think it was called foxfield i use to ride a horse called minstral
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• Re: pensby childrens home 1971to 1973 by Sandra oliver (Member 10244396) on 3-Feb-2010
  I was there from early march til poss june 1975 and i have very fond memories of it.(strange but true) We were not in the big house, with matron, but in buildings down in the dip. The doctors used to come now and again and you'd be whisked into the purpose built rooms outside the main doors hoping that it might be your turn to go home. There was the carousel up in the large shed and there was a bo
  y called Nigel who was unable to talk or care for himself and his dad was great he used to come every day and visit him and take a group of us around the woods trying to make shapes of different animals out of tree branches. We used to go up to the 'big house' to do jig saws with matron and went on walks. The school was really good as it had two classrooms, i would say it was up to about 10 in one class and 11 onwards in the other. Inside the hospital there was a young girl in a caste in the bed near the doors and in the good weather they opened up the doors for her to get some fresh air as she was to be in plaster for about 9 months, unbelievable now but that was the way back then. I believe the staff were good and fair and tried to keep alot of children in some sort of order. I travelled back a couple of years later and they still remembered me and it hadn't changed and then i was told it had been turned into murrayfield and everything was long gone. For some of us it wasn't such a bad part of our childhood. But i can say that because i went home i know some of the children lived there permanently.
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• Re: pensby childrens home 1971to 1973 by andy jones (Member 10246540) on 8-Apr-2010
  hi can anyone help. i was in pensby childrens home from around 1976-79. i dont no anything about the place and i have my questions left unanswered. does anyone know why children went there? and where it was? and if the building still stands? many thanks

• Re: pensby childrens home 1971to 1973 by andy jones (Member 10246540) on 8-Apr-2010
  hi can anyone help. i was in pensby childrens home from around 1976-79. i dont know anything about the place and i have many questions left unanswered. does anyone know why children went there? and where it was? and if the building still stands? many thanks

• Re: pensby childrens home 1971to 1973 by Melanie .E. Smith .nee Philipson. (Member 10249348) on 27-Nov-2010
  I was 6 years old when I was sent to that place, I was there from june 1971 until late autumn of the same year.I remember Mr Jackson who taught the older kids, and Mrs Osbourne who taught us younger kids. I hated it there I was glad when my dad took me home on the Friday , and sad when my mum took me back on the Sunday.I remember Sister Seddon and Nurse Gollins , she was lovely . Nurses Tayler,Pal
  in,Middlehurst and Prescott.
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• Re: pensby childrens home 1971to 1973 by joanne rhodes (Member 10257428) on 1-Feb-2011
  hi all i first put my question about Pensby on here in 2004 at that time i was Joanne Boyes1012552, but as life goes on i have re-married and moved and once again lost the use of the computer "HAY THATS LIFE "
  i would like to up date my e-mail address joanne.rhodes267@googlemail.com and give my apologies to any one who tryed to contact me. My name as a child was Joanne Meadows, any one remember m
  y name from Pensby Childrens /hospital. i am hoping to be given some photos this week of the pensby i think i went to, and i know this is what lots of us would like to see. so i am keeping my fingers crossed this person will bring them into me. i have found reading everyones memory's sad and happy knowning i didnt dream things like the sweet tin, being force fed mine was fruit. thanks to everyone and i hope all these messages help others too!
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• Re: pensby childrens home 1971to 1973 by joanne rhodes (Member 10257428) on 1-Feb-2011
  Not sure if this is Pensby hos/childrens home but i have been give a web page with a photo of the hospital to day.
  www.francisfrith.com/heswall/photospensby-road
  could anyone let me if this is the place.
  photo H276141
  

• Re: pensby childrens home 1971to 1973 by Melanie .E. Smith .nee Philipson. (Member 10249348) on 7-Mar-2011
  I can remember a few names of kids who were at Pensby when i was there.Mark Thompson,Stephen Morris,and his mum,Paline Harrop,Alison Kelly, Jill Corrothers,Jonathan Grice and a little girl named Anita Piken. Also in the garden at the back of the house, there were swings,monkey bars and a caravan that we used to play in I hope this will jog some memories out there.

• Re: pensby childrens home 1971to 1973 by joanne rhodes (Member 10257428) on 12-Aug-2011
  yes i remember the carvans and a young boy been wraped up in loo roll! for some reason, i dont remember names as i was 6 years old, Joanne Meadows. did you have a look at the photo was this the pensby !

• Re: pensby childrens home 1971to 1973 by Jan (Member 10269907) on 23-Jan-2012
  I was at Pensby Childrens wing earlier it was around 1963, I remember being very sad that I was sent there but then once I got used to it, I loved it so much. I was there for about a year, I remember going on walks to the dungeons and also to Thurstaston. I remember nurse merrick, nurse pelter, miss flemington, miss fenner. I can remember some of the children, susan fildes, debbie, anne, campb
  ell. we always had ham for lunch on saturday which was horrible! we used to go on trips in the clatterbridge carrier. would love to hear from anyone there at that time
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