LEEDS HOSPITALS PATIENT REPORTS IN THE "EVENING POST"

[BLAKEY]

keyholekate wrote: BLAKEY wrote: LEEDS INFIRMARYVery ill 90 604 Serious 78 225 1802Comfortable 290 556 1003 1190All others doing well. H BlakeyIf you look closely you will see just that little report here.http://www.flickr.com/photos/circuitron ... otostream/ Thanks a lot for that Kate - and aren't the adverts for various products and rationing just fascinating ?? We were just two months into WW2 and it was a grim time all round.

[keyholekate]

Yes Blakey it makes fascinating reading.I love this article too."Soaked people who had waited a QUARTER OF AN HOUR or more were unable to find room on the tram and had to walk home in the rain"http://www.flickr.com/photos/circuitron ... tostream/I wouldnt complain at waiting 15 minutes for a bus today,how come in this day and age our transport is so bad yet people during the war were in uproar for waiting so little time for a tram?

[BLAKEY]

keyholekate wrote: Yes Blakey it makes fascinating reading.I love this article too."Soaked people who had waited a QUARTER OF AN HOUR or more were unable to find room on the tram and had to walk home in the rain"http://www.flickr.com/photos/circuitron ... tostream/I wouldnt complain at waiting 15 minutes for a bus today,how come in this day and age our transport is so bad yet people during the war were in uproar for waiting so little time for a tram? The answer, Kate, is sadly politically sensitive but is very simple. Pre 1974 and 1986 bus and tram services in West Yorkshire were provided with great pride by the Municipal Authorities who were answerable to the ratepayers. Now they are "provided" by private profit making undertakings with only their shareholders to consider - "Evening Mrs. Thatcher - fancy seeing you and Sir Nicholas Ridley in this queue - been waiting long ????."

[gbdlufc]

keyholekate wrote: BLAKEY wrote: Can anyone recall the tiny little daily report in the papers where the patients were referred to by their hospital numbers. The format was something like this :-LEEDS INFIRMARYVery ill 90 604 Serious 78 225 1802Comfortable 290 556 1003 1190All others doing well.We tend to forget these days that relatively few folks had telephones and might find the "four pennies and press button A" in a telephone box difficult to come by. How times have changed - now you can ring each ward or department on its own specific number.     H BlakeyIf you look closely you will see just that little report here.http://www.flickr.com/photos/circuitron ... otostream/ Is it possible to view these hospital lists in the YEP around the early 70's?

[Bramley4woods]

keyholekate wrote: Yes Blakey it makes fascinating reading.I love this article too."Soaked people who had waited a QUARTER OF AN HOUR or more were unable to find room on the tram and had to walk home in the rain"http://www.flickr.com/photos/circuitron ... tostream/I wouldnt complain at waiting 15 minutes for a bus today,how come in this day and age our transport is so bad yet people during the war were in uproar for waiting so little time for a tram? If my mothers attitude was owt to go by folks *DIDN'T LIKE TRAMS*,which were seen as decrepit relics of the 1930's, save for a few "Middleton Bogies", and a couple of single deck railcars.Taking into account the scrap trams bought from London and Southampton, this was about right.Certainly my mother would have spent the whole 15 minutes voicing her many and varied opinions as to the best way of destroying a tram.Apparently where trams were concerned burning was too good for them.