Spittal Brook.

industryarch

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Withnail

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Perhaps here i should explain why it is called Spittal Brook? I have, after all, been waiting for an opportunity to do so since i found out myself.

The whole area was called Spittal Brook until it was renamed Queensville in commemoration of Vicky's Diamond Jubilee. The name comes from the (ho)spit(t)al that was once there. Dedicated to St.John, it was originally a leper hospital - well enough away from other townsfolk - and became the centre of a mini-development that took its name.

It is quite possible that not a lot of people know that.

My name is not Michael Caine.
 
John Marwood

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Withnail said:
Perhaps here i should explain why it is called Spittal Brook? I have, after all, been waiting for an opportunity to do so since i found out myself.

The whole area was called Spittal Brook until it was renamed Queensville in commemoration of Vicky's Diamond Jubilee. The name comes from the (ho)spit(t)al that was once there. Dedicated to St.John, it was originally a leper hospital - well enough away from other townsfolk - and became the centre of a mini-development that took its name.

It is quite possible that not a lot of people know that.

My name is not Michael Caine.
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Would that be the HoSPITal founded by Baron RALPH the son of Margaret Bassett of the coach company fame around 1300 ? (or one oclock in newspeak) He fought at the relief of Brest dont you know
 
industryarch

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sorry to disapoint you, it was the corantion of queen vic
The Staffordshire Advertiser for June 30th 1838 carried the following article.​
“ The inhabitants of the small hamlet of ‘Spittal Brook’, near Stafford resolved in commemoration of the coronation of Queen Victoria to change the name of the hamlet to ‘Queens-ville’.

The day was celebrated with great gaiety, the national colours were hoisted, guns fired, bonfires light and bumbers quaffed to the health of our young Queen. An annual wake festival is to be held on the first Monday in July to celebrate the event.”
 
flossietoo

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Withnail said:
Perhaps here i should explain why it is called Spittal Brook? I have, after all, been waiting for an opportunity to do so since i found out myself.

The whole area was called Spittal Brook until it was renamed Queensville in commemoration of Vicky's Diamond Jubilee. The name comes from the (ho)spit(t)al that was once there. Dedicated to St.John, it was originally a leper hospital - well enough away from other townsfolk - and became the centre of a mini-development that took its name.

It is quite possible that not a lot of people know that.

My name is not Michael Caine.
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Is that true? A leper hospital at Spittal Brook? My flabber is genuinely gasted. Why do you think the name of the area would derive from the generic 'hospital' (when surely there must have been other hospitals locally) rather than the more specific St John?
 
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flossietoo said:
Why do you think the name of the area would derive from the generic 'hospital' (when surely there must have been other hospitals locally) rather than the more specific St John?
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I don't really know - however i have got my medieval spittals in something of a twist.

The one at Spittal Brook was the The Hospital of St. Lazarus. Also known as the The Hospital of the Holy Sepulchre, if was better known as the latter, perhaps that was less likely to trip off the tongue.

P.S. St. Johns was in Forebridge.
 
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flossietoo said:
Why do you think the name of the area would derive from the generic 'hospital' (when surely there must have been other hospitals locally) rather than the more specific St John?
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Probably just a coincidence, but the St John Ambulance HQ is just up the road here
 
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Birdies_best_mate said:
I used to go there every lunchtime in the late seventies when i was an Apprentice Patternmaker over the road at GEC
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I went there slightly less frequently than that, but it is the only place where I have ever heard somebody utter the phrase "dog's pubic hair"..

You had to be there..
 
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In there now, still no food. Lots of kids, but I'm not complaining - quite a nice atmosphere actually . They are all in the back, front is kid free if you don't want to be near them. They sell Addlestones, not my favourite but it ain't strongbow!
 
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