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Who remembers being sent to the clinic on Cannon St. I once had to go there to see the dentist, I swear I had smoke coming out of my mouth while they tried to drill my teeth!!!! :eek::eek::eek:

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Seem to think our class was once sent yon,to see "Nitty Nora":D

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think it was obligotary to go from junior school we all went from st johns im sure

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Groove remembers the clinic on Cannon.ST...He remembers a kind of ramp/slope on the way in for some reason.

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Oh....don't remind me! That is where my fear of dentists stemmed from.
They scared me to death.......having fillings done there was hellish.......I remember being held down by a meaty(fat) dental nurse......I wriggled and squealed but it didn't get me anywhere.......I still eneded up having my tooth drilled and filled.
The long term repercussions were that I went for more that 40 years without seeing a dentist.

I have only recently overcome this fear....thanks to the patience and kindness of the dentist at Oak House.

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Groove remembers actually looking forward to having half a day off school and being gassed to have extractions, in his naivety...Groove is still scared of dentists till this day. He remembers coming out through the waiting room in tears, with a blood stained bandage held to his mouth. Heaven forbid a nervous patient was in that waiting room-they'd have ran a mile

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Yup this is the place. I once locked myself in their toilets for hours. Was the last one in before they turned the lights out!! Worked on me with a Black and Decker with a broken bit!! Honest!!! :eek::eek::eek:

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Cheers beechy, thought that was the script.;):) by the way are yeh going to the Peel Park Inn Nov 22 nd fer the St.Johns Reunion? tis a good night.;)

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I remember going there with my mum to take my brother and sister(twins) when they were babies, early 1950s. They were weighed in a scale with a big pan and we got cod liver oil and orange juice concentrate in a bottle with a blue top.

Wasn't it a wooden building with gates out the front?

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I remember the Burnley clinic,,where kids came back to school with big patches over their lazy eyes,,,and others had purple blotches everywhere,,,,sheese
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Never went to the dentist at the clinic, maybe because I always went to a dentist up Burnley Road think it was called Claytons, I know Nigel Bramley-Haworth took over the practise in later years

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Yeah my mum used to know him. He was called Reggie Clayton and he had a daughter Elaine.

Our dentist was in the first block on Whalley Road past the top of Milnshaw Lane, above Thornbers chemist. His name was Dougie Payton and he had a bristly moustache and glasses and a wry neck. I used to find it terrifying when he loomed over you in the chair.

Our doctor was next door to the dentist. His name was Dr Lancett-Edwards, a really good name for a doctor!

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Never went to the dentist at the Clinic, but had plenty of jabs there - polio, diptheria, smallpox etc.

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Some years after Dougie Payton Died I met his widow who had married a well know local cricker called Tommy Law, in fact he died not to long ago and I think his grandson is a member on here

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I used to go to Douglas Payton for the dentist but my memory of the Cannon Street Clinic is having to go their for my BCG vaccination because I was off school when they were done there. Kids from all over the town who had missed their jabs were there and we had to line up down a corridor. A girl went in first and started screaming her head off. We were all looking at each other wondering what sort of needle they were using and where they might be sticking it until we heard the nurse tell her to shut up because she hadn't done anything yet. Happy days!

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My memory of the clinic was going there for what I guess was a polio jab in '55 or '56.

There had been an outbreak somewhere in the North of England so all children were called in for either their first or a booster jab.

Looking back the really worrying thing is that because my mother knew the nurse doing the jabs she made sure I got 'the new needle'. (So how many poor souls / needle?) No wonder the kiddie in front of me howled like a banshee.

Rgds

John45378

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The old needle would have been a multi use one(makes me shudder when I think of it).......they were blunter than a butter knife, having pierced endless rubber bungs and the as many again skins....you probably got one of the first disposable needles. Much kinder and much safer too.

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Wa Margaret, can remember when the flue jab came out at first, the first aide guy at Shopfitters Tom Davies used to do the deed, it was a matter of getting in first while the needle was still sharp:eek::eek::eek:

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Consider yourself fortunate , Wyn .

It wasn't an experience to be recommended . :eek:

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Oh don't remind me, I went to see the optician there.
Irene B (was Davies)

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I was working there today putting a new kitchen in the staffroom, it is now a nursery owned by my employers. But i remember going to the dentists there, i knocked the dentist on his backside when coming round off gas. He probably deserved it, i think he was kicked out of the gestapo for cruelty:D

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Yes it was 1956 accy did have an out break of polio, resulted in my grandma dying & effected my dads family massively, so yes getting innoculised was very important.

Hated cannon street - gave me the creeps that dentist was brutal it put me off dentists as a child, luckily not like that these days:D

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Only remember going for the polio ...wasn't an injection ...just a lump of sugar to ingest.

Also, never had the smallpox injections, as the programme for eradication had begun. Well, I think the round scar patch of about 2 cms with four little pin prick marks within it, was that. Some people had about four of these on their arms.... mmm... must research.

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Didn't the BCG vaccination for TB look like that as well?

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No, that sometimes just came up in a lump, and could leave a very small circular scar.

There was something about scraping the surface of the skin away first, which freaked me out. My mum had one.

Will be people around still, I would think, that have them. Will accost very old people to enquire.. :)

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Yes you are right, just checked - my BCG scar is about 1cm in diameter, the smallpox ones were bigger and slightly sunk below the skin surface.

I do remember the sugar lump for polio!

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When me dad had T.B. which would be Mid/Late 60s all family n his friends had to have it.:eek: He was shoved in Withnell, but don't remember that much about it, cos me mam was in another Hospital very poorly wi summat else, so being eldest i had to run the house, get brother n sis up fer school,feed em etc etc, plus i was working at the time, was a real bitch, But still kate yeh can accost me anytime.:D

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LOL ...would accept the invitation, but you are too young for my research.

See this, Susie, yes, they were the smallpox vaccinations. Was a comment on You Tube made in 2007.

"Checking out my old smallpox vaccination scar for vaccine. Over fifty years ago a doctor scratched the skin of my upper left arm with a small knife and smeared the smallpox vaccine into the wound. This barbaric technique was common practice in those days amongst some older doctors and resulted in a very large scar."

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Ya I remember have the smallpox vaccine in the 60s Kate and the doctor using like bobbin with needles sticking out of one end and keep stabbing my upper left arm with it before applying the vaccine, if I remember rightly I was a bit rough for a few days after that and one of the other lads who was going away on holiday with us was very poorly with it, it actually put him in bed for about 10 days

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I had to go for a medical there before I started on Accy buses, waste of time really, I only lasted three weeks.
I was examined by a big butch nurse who delighted in squeezing my tender bits.
My old mate Ernie Walton warned me about her, he had the same treatment the year before.

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My memoryof the Cannon st dental clinic was that I seem to remember the dentist looked like the actor Donald Pleasence, short and bald and weird voice ...SCARY....