Originally Posted by flashytart (Post 382950)

my god daddy where the hell did you appear from? i thought you where dead.....i havent spoken to him since november so no i aint asked yet :D

Originally Posted by flashytart (Post 382957)

nope, he knows where i live (it aint hard really is it)

Originally Posted by Pheonixx (Post 75709)

Thank you for bringing the memories back for me I enjoyed my years of working and living on the staff estate..Brookside.
[QUOTEOn my side my brothers wife jean jackson was a house mother also there daughter janette was a nurse there a beautiful girl who unfortunately died at the early age of 27 years ]
Yes I do remember Janette she was a lovely person and a very good freind of a lovely lady who also died of the same illness Stella Smith.
I also knew John grantham and I was unaware he had died..that is so sad I remember when the daughter died and having a conversation with him about bringing up the grandchild that was a lot of years ago now and I have wondered how that all panned out..that child will be getting on a bit now..I was married to a guy whos mum and her husband ran the social club but sadly Wendy died again of cancer about 4 years back..she was a smashing mum in law.
On a lighter note I knew Mick Morgan we used to call him the mayor of Brookside..and to the person whos dad is a planner ,was he a planner at brockhall.. was he called John by any chance and had been in a group many years ago..Linda

Originally Posted by Alan Gilmartin (Post 74692)

Anyone who worked at Brockhall in the 60s. I worked in the staff kitchen. To name a few. Charlie Jungbluth, ( catering Officer ), Martin Briggs, David Jones, Jack Asprey, Harry Hargraeves, Harry Buckley, Allan Wearden. Many other names, but see how many others we get. I know Its an Accy forum, but there was an hell of a lot of people who worked there from Accy.

Originally Posted by flashytart (Post 506716)

some of the patients where moved into the community, i used to look after some of them at Altham care home in clayton (dont recall his name though) some where looked after by Hyndburn core and cluster where my dad and sister used to work(they had there own little homes in the community) other than that i havent a clue, hope you find out soon what happened to him, good luck

Originally Posted by cdean (Post 506714)

Can anyone help!! My uncle (whom i have only just found out about) was instituionalised in Brockhall Hospital as a child. Around 1945ish and lived there till his death in 2004, aged 65years. His name was Henry Collier. Does anyone remember him, i have found one picture of him in his later life and he was quite tall, good build, dark hair and looked a really nice man. i know very little about him or why he was sent there, how can i get any more information about him? also does anyone know where inmates were moved to in 1994 when the hospitaal was closed or how i can find that out? i am his next living relative, so i have next of kin rights i assume to his records, i just don't know how to go about finding them. did any staff remember him? i only wish i'd know 3 years ago so that i could have visited him.

Originally Posted by lancsdave (Post 506722)

According to this link you need to contact the records office in Preston;

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