This is another major change along the route, with the first of a new housing estate and just recently a retirment home complex, which once use to be the grounds of Worcester Ronkswood Hospital
Ronkswood Hospital was built on part of the original Tolladine Golf Course at the beginning of World War II under the Emergency Medical Services, as a temporary hutted hospital, later to be used by the Ministry of Pensions as a Pensions Hospital. It had a compliment of 600 beds in 14 wards, some wards having as many as 40 beds. It was opened in 1941 with its own staff (Medical, Surgical and Nursing) and during the war treated service casualties, civilian casualties from the Birmingham air raids and other cases, but a few years after the conclusion of the war its occupancy fell very low.
As a National Health Hospital, Ronkswood came under the control of the Selly Oak Group in 1951 for the purpose of reducing the long list of patients waiting for treatment in Birmingham. This proposal was impractical due to the distances patients and their families needed to travel to Worcester, so in 1952 it was transferred to the South Worcestershire Group and became part of Worcester Royal Infirmary and extended greatly. The number of beds was subsequently reduced to 319.
In September 1952 a large Maternity Department of 49 beds utilising four of the existing wards and the addition of an ante-natal clinic and classroom was opened at Ronkswood Hospital by Dame Hilda Lloyd. This department catered for both normal and abnormal midwifery and later for General Practitioner midwifery in a separate unit. No further midwifery was done at Castle Street. Some 32 years later in 1984 Mrs CJ & me were blessed with our son Matthew
The meaning of the name is hoping that you don't have difficulty in finding this cache but has some clues to what your looking for,
The cache is located in a natural crevice, is slightly biger than a 35ml container something EXTRA and has been camo taped (but no GUM) you may be able to do some small swaps but not Trackables, and will need to bring your own pen to sign the log, please replace as found
The bonus cache can be found by collecting all the letters and associated numbers then placing them in alphabetical order to locate where the cache is, they have been placed in the caches along the route(but not in order) and are at the top/beginning of each log good hunting Honours go to FTF MLJ Waffle007 STF Nibbles12 TTF Joint Sharpei65 & Neil H