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Christmas Eve 1963 Billinge Hospital
Christmas Eve 1963 Billinge Hospital
Photo: Karen Slater
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Item #: 7932
My grandad Joe Slater (Ambulance man)on left then a gentleman called Colin on the right, don't know the two people in between them though.

Comment by: she44 on 11th November 2008 at 15:15

i just missed the celebrations i went in on christmas day in 1963 i gave birth to my daughter we was the last to use roy hartley ward there was 4 babys born that day

Comment by: John Jarvis on 11th November 2008 at 20:40

Colin, the chap on the right, looks a rum bugger; looks like he's had one too many...

Comment by: Margaret Fairclough on 11th November 2008 at 22:54

Would your Mum be Maureen by any chance

Comment by: karen on 12th November 2008 at 05:08

Hiya Margaret, Maureen was my auntie, her brother Joe was my dad.I have a few old piccies of them aswell because Maureen worked at Billinge Hospital too.

Comment by: Mark Calter on 12th November 2008 at 20:06

The guy on the right is Colin Silcock he came from Orrell

Comment by: Joan Beckett(Wilding) on 12th November 2008 at 21:36

Gosh I glad they weren't delivering my baby that night lololol

Comment by: Art on 13th November 2008 at 11:12

I never met joe Slater, but heard about him.
Wasn't he the Staion Officer at Billinge Ambulance Station?
He left just before I started at Standish Ambulance Station, in November '69.(There was then,an acting SO)
Both stations then came under Lancashire County Amb Service, 'til the NHS took over in '74. I did a couple of spells at Billinge as a reserve.

Comment by: Karen Slater on 13th November 2008 at 13:41

Yes Art, he was the Station Officer.

Comment by: Julie Marsh on 13th October 2013 at 10:43

That's the day I was born, xmas eve 63 at Billinge, obviously can't remember much.

Comment by: ROY MELLING on 21st April 2020 at 16:30

COLIN WAS THE TRANSPORT OFFICER AT LEIGH HOSPITAL WHEN I STARTED AT WIGAN AMULANCE 1979,HE WAS A TRUE GENTLEMAN.

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