St Norman's Hospital

So, the pulp version of Norman's Riding. Expect this model to change with time.

Initial provisional version. There were definite boundaries - the hospital was bounded to the front by a sharp drop to a ravine and there was another drop along the edge behind the garage and workshops. The path that just ends, in real life it was where the boiler men would tip any waste over the side... The trees were firs planted just before I went to live there - thinning them out provided our Christmas Trees.

The entrance. There were actually 2 gateways - this one being the inner gate. The hut represents the Porter's Lodge. The missing items are where I lived on the other side of the the gate and a driveway to the outer gate - this included a further wooded area and the hospital's sewage plant. Just inside the outer gate was a visitor's car park.

Scale out a bit here - should be more building, less road. For this version building includes the wards, in reality this was the Nurse's Home - the actual left wing was used as accommodation for a resident doctor downstairs and the Hospital Matron and various other occasional occupants - the Porter's Lodge was occupied by the Hospital Secretary and his family; when the Lodge was being renovated once the family moved into an apartment here. The central portion  was the hospital kitchen. Very important, did great fish and chips. I was never in the right wing - mainly admin and storage I think. In the real thing that barely visible road behind the Nurse's Home represents the roads to the wards - see photo in previous post.

This is probably the least well represented area. The building with the van parked outside was the garage. It housed 2 vehicles used mainly to bring and take staff to work - less private transport in those days and staff coming in from a wide area. They also carried any other provisions etc needed. There weren't any ambulances based at Norman's. Oh yeah - the hospital vans also took me to and from school...  The other building is so far all I have to represent the laundry, mortuary, Engineer's Office and workshop (my Dad's place!) and boiler house. Ah, the fun I had in those days, picking away at all  the asbestos lagging around the boiler house pipes... There was also a small incinerator.

Extra completely superfluous picture showing it populated...

For information, after posting the original Norman's Riding post I actually found a decent picture on the Internet - I've inserted it in there.Sadly, I didn't do much in the way of photography with my Brownie 127 back then and don't have all the fantastic period photos of things I would like to have now.