Clinic next to Leytonstone Station Granleigh Rd (Leytonstone)

Clinic next to Leytonstone Station Granleigh Rd (Leytonstone)

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In the early 50's I can remember going here and being 'put-out' by gas to have a tooth filled.
It was terrible. Its was just in front of Leytonstone football ground. Where Linda Cooper lived.

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Granleigh Road Clinic	by Jim Smith (Member 10085272) on 27-Dec-2010
I have rather good memories of the clinic. I had a rather longhead and at the time it was considered a sign of inteligence (how wrong can they be) so I was always shown round. There use to be a female doctor called Dr Gilgrist, I think. We used to get our polio jabs there. When we left school we had to go there for a medical. Also it dispensed Natioanal Health orange juice and dried milk. I had a craze for dried milk in my teens. I use to love it on shredded wheat with lumps in. Ah Happy Days! ... more >> Re: Granleigh Road Clinic by J MacFarlane (Member 10258810) on 26-Mar-2011 I remember Miss Gilchrist. And the dentist - oh dear! Gas - awful! Miss Gilchrist also used to do health visits at school. I went to Davies Lane, and will never forget having my long and very curly hair combed, and the nurse's disappointment when she didn't find anything living in it!!!!!!!! Reply

that clinic next to the railway.	by john porter (Member 10246422) on 4-Apr-2010
Yes I remember that clinic I use to visit quite a bit has at that time I was a bit weak. The nurses use to give me consecrated orange juice and cod-liver and malt it tasted great. I was at Norlington Road School at the time. I lived in Grove Green Road after being bombed out in Carnarvon Road Leyton in 1944. Cheers, John Porter. Re: that clinic next to the railway. by Glo (Member 10177226) on 14-Apr-2010 I remember this clinic with horror! I was just 8 years old and mum told me I was just going for a check up (my first ever visit to a dentist). I recall sitting in the chair on my own in a room when suddenly a hand came over my shoulder and clamped a gas mask over my nose and had 6 teeth taken out. I am now 67 years old and can still feel that mask over my face, still smell the rubber and most fri ghtening of all remember fighting for my life as I couldn't breath. This episode has made me terrified of all dentists all my life and only go when I am in pain. ... more >> Re: that clinic next to the railway. by steve love (Member 10247816) on 17-May-2010 that clinic was called the polio centre, my teeth are in a terrible state now all due to the fear of dentists i got from that horrible place, i can remember the horrible woman who worked there used to hold you down while the dentist forced that rubber mask over your face & hold it there until you eventually had to breath & then pass out. they would get nicked for child cruelty these days, quite rightly too. Reply

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