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St Joseph's Children's Convalescent Home / Spastics' Hospital, Formby, Lancashire

A sanatorium for the treatment of children with tuberculosis was opened in 1915 in Formby, at the western end of Blundell Avenue, Freshfield.

By the mid-1930s, the site had become St Joseph's Children's Convalescent Home.

Grotto at St Joseph's Children's Convalescent Home, Liverpool, Lancashire, c.1946. © Peter Higginbotham

Chapel at St Joseph's Children's Convalescent Home, Liverpool, Lancashire, c.1946. © Peter Higginbotham

By the early 1960s, the home was providing care for children with mental and physical disabilities, what were then referred to as "spastics".

Records

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