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While clearly very near Thornton Heath (the Pond is just up the road), I’ve always felt the hospital to be in Broad Green, one of those London districts which has not become well known outside its local area, being unstationed and unfamous.
But I may well have got my Broad Green wrongly positioned and one can’t argue too strongly that a road pretty near Thornton Heath Pond is in fact somewhere else.
Robert Butlin | 06.05.24 - 7:17 a.m. | #
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Very interesting post for me this one as I can tick the box for having been born in Mayday Hospital.
Lee | 06.05.24 - 8:05 a.m. | #
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That isn’t a timber framed house, it’s a brick house someone has tried to Tudorise [why?] by nailing fake planks to the frontage
Crispy | 06.05.24 - 8:16 a.m. | #
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In the 70‘s I was a regular at the A&E as it was the local Hospital for Selhurst Grammar school. In terms of branding everyone in the Croydon area knew what Mayday was, even without mentioning hospital and I do not remember it having a negative connotation. In fact I do not remember having to wait more than30 minutes which is pretty amazing by modern standards.
A friend of mine worked for a wine wholesalers which was in the back of the coach house building but that is probably , sadly like him, long gone. What is now Dakota House used to be a building company (Mansells?)
keith the Kraut | 06.05.24 - 9:02 a.m. | #
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Happy May Day (observed) to all readers, and thanks to for bringing me two interesting stories of streets I have never been on, and probably never will.
Greg | 06.05.24 - 10:03 a.m. | #
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Pebbledash is relatively inexpensive and covers a multitude of building sins (and poor quality brickwork). It was the popular choice of cost conscious house builders in the 1920s; when demand for housing was high and building materials where limited.
Rod | 06.05.24 - 10:53 a.m. | #
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I think Mayday is the perfect name for a hospital!
Cornish Cockney | 06.05.24 - 11:46 a.m. | #
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It’s known locally as the May Die.
I’m just passing this on, as I have the utmost respect for everyone who works for the NHS.
Neesi | 06.05.24 - 12:34 p.m. | #
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The old name lingers on to the extent that I suspect even people born after the hospital renaming think of it as the Mayday. Indeed, I get the impression that even nowadays people referring to Croydon University Hospital feel obliged to say 'Mayday' just to make it clear what hospital is meant.
There was also a Croydon General Hospital just down the road and close to West Croydon station - now sadly gone as the site was deemed too small.
By the way, if you ask CoPilot (Microsoft's AI program) to give details of Croydon General Hospital it totally erroneously thinks that it is the former name of Croydon University Hospital prior to it being called Mayday. Such is the danger of AI.
Pedantic of Purley | 06.05.24 - 2:10 p.m. | #
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I too was born in Mayday. Was always told it was because my mother was older when she had me and younger mothers went elsewhere.
Neil | 06.05.24 - 2:30 p.m. | #
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I was born at Mayday Hospital and grew up in Thornton Heath nearer the Pond - but I had always believed that the hospital was in Croydon rather than Thornton Heath because that is what it says on my birth certificate.
I had many visits to the Eye Clinic in the Victorian rebrick building as a child. My reward for undergoing what I felt were unpleasant and frightening examinations was a Cornish pasty or chocolate eclair from Coughlan's.
Chris | 06.05.24 - 3:50 p.m. | #
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This post brought back many memories. I had my Tonsils out there in 1950. We lived about half a mile away. It is technically Thornton Heath though, and as I was born nearby at home off Bensham Lane , my Birth Cert says Croydon also. Tho Heath is part of Croydon. I love seeing the collection of photos. Thanks.
Tina Onions | 06.05.24 - 10:32 p.m. | #
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To Pedantic of Purley, I remember when Croydon General had an A and E Dept. I went there on a couple of occasions ; once when I fell down the stairs and broke a toe, and another time when I fell off my Lambretta.
Tina Onions | 06.05.24 - 10:40 p.m. | #
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