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Thread: Bignold Cottage Hospital

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fran View Post
    I live near the old Bignold hospital, it is good that it wasnt knocked down, just converted to flats/houses, so it still looks the same.
    I always thought the Henderson Nursing home was in northcote street and is used by nhs for offices.
    Fran I think you are talking about the 'nurses Home' that was in Northcote Street. Now privately owned.
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    Hi

    All of the above is very interesting, I can just about remember going to the Bignold when I was a little girl to see my Granny, who was a patient at the time, that was about 1975 I think...... Keep the info coming, love reading it...... Thanks

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    think that was where the district nurses used to live (can remember Nurse Dunbar living there) and had their offices - long time ago when I was young.
    empty for a long time then used as offices for NHS staff
    Sold as a private house probably about 15 years ago.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Angela View Post
    and...my next question is - who were the Hendersons?

    They were the family of James Henderson, Distiller, Pulteneytown (Old Pultney) this family had owned the Rosebank House (Henderson Nursing Home since 1836.

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    I remember when I was at a meeting of the planned new hospital years ago (the present Caithness General Hospital) when they were proposing the new ward names after the BIGNOLD Hospital,HENDERSON , and ROSEBANK. I asked that there be a hospital radio, but they hadnt planned for this. So, after discussion they agreed a radio room could be in the old pharmacy of the central hospital, next to the morgue, and I was the first presenter. Memories........................
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fran View Post
    I remember when I was at a meeting of the planned new hospital years ago (the present Caithness General Hospital) when they were proposing the new ward names after the BIGNOLD Hospital,HENDERSON , and ROSEBANK. I asked that there be a hospital radio, but they hadnt planned for this. So, after discussion they agreed a radio room could be in the old pharmacy of the central hospital, next to the morgue, and I was the first presenter. Memories........................

    Well Fran, it is still on the go and they are appealling for more presenters. There you go.....you have experience!
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    Quote Originally Posted by johno View Post
    scan them then post em to bill fernie & he will put them in the photo section

    I pass the Bignold every day. Often wonder why it was sold to local enterprise as i believe it was gifted to the town by Sir Arthur Bignold.
    same goe,s for the Henderson nursing home that to was gifted to the people of Wick, ok we needed a new hospital ,but to knock down a lovely historic building like that was just criminal. they surely could have built the cgh elsewhere


    Found this photo in a booklet about The Henderson Memorial Nursing Home. My mother was a nurse in it until they knocked it down.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fran View Post
    I live near the old Bignold hospital, it is good that it wasnt knocked down, just converted to flats/houses, so it still looks the same.
    I always thought the Henderson Nursing home was in northcote street and is used by nhs for offices.
    Fran, I may be wrong but it runs in my mind that the house in Northcote St was where the District Nurses lived. i believe that there was a bungalow just down from the Bignold that had a similar purpose. At my age I could be be wrong!!!

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    you are right Trinkie - or it is my memory too!

    House on George Street was sold many years ago, house in Northcote Street sold think it was early 90s.

    I remember when the district nurses used to cycle around, can also remeber Nurse Dunbar getting her little black car and whizzing around the streets of Wick.

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