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Published on: 02/04/2020 08:28 PMReported by: rogerblaxall
Pics (taken 2006): Maureen Alcock
It's strange returning to where you once worked, isn't it?
But I couldn't resist an open gate - possibly vandalised - which led me down memory lane for a fascinating 'back to nature' walk last week.
I knew Jospice's Hettinga House really well - an aunt from Aughton was cared for there just before it closed and I worked for Jospice from 2006 - 2010 and helped clear the property before demolition; it hardly seems 12 years or so since it was deemed as a financial millstone by the St.Joseph's powers that be at Thornton near Crosby.
Just the memorial 'Life for a life' memorial forest remains; the site's now owned by the Stocks Hall care group which hopes to open a specialised high dependency medical care unit there - one day. In the meantime the old house - formerly Charlesby - has been demolished and I'm grateful to local historian Dot Hawkes for this info on its past:
Charlesby, Lathom: Ellis Edward Linaker lived at Charlesby from the late 1890s after inheriting a large sum from his uncle John Robinson of The Market Cross, Ormskirk (now Santander). During WW1 he was the chairman and manager of a munitions factory in the area and also the chairman, secretary and treasurer of the Ormskirk Cottage Hospital.
And here's how the Champ reported its closure back in 2007: https://www.champnews.com/html/newsstory.asp?id=6110#.XoZHcW5FzIU
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