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unusual facts about convalescent home



Drübeck Abbey

At the request of the last abbess, Countess Magdalena of Stolberg-Wernigerode, the Evangelical Church Province of Saxony took over the abbey in 1946 as a convalescent home and conference centre.


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Children's Order of Chivalry

Shortly after the society was established, the Earl and Countess of Winchilsea founded a temporary convalescent home for poor 'companions' of the Order in the village of Ewerby, close to the family's Lincolnshire estate.

Craig-y-Don

On the hillside above Queen's Road is the North Wales Medical Centre, built in 1902 as Lady Forester's Convalescent Home (in memory of the 3rd Baron Forester) and since 1977 offering private medical treatment.

Dundee Royal Infirmary

Further royal charters were granted in 1877 and 1898, the former on the occasion of the opening of a convalescent home connected with the hospital at Barnhill.

East Kent College

It was named after shipbuilder Sir Alfred Yarrow, who provided funds for the construction of the building as a children’s convalescent home in 1895.

Healing the Wounds

Since Healing the Wounds' foundation, the charity campaigned to raise funds to purchase and maintain a convalescent home based at Golden Grove Mansion in Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire.

The Duchess of Kent Children's Hospital at Sandy Bay

In 1970, Katharine, Duchess of Kent visited and when the facility upgraded from “Convalescent Home“ to “Hospital” in 1971, it took her name.

Thomas Cope

At the time of his death he was chairman of the Convalescent Home at Woolton, and the Consumptive Hospital in Mount Pleasant, Liverpool until his death and was one of the main benefactors.