67. Old JGH site & the naming of the new roads.

Key words/phrases: The Bridge Project, Bob Dunn Way, Rennie Drive, Halcrow Avenue, Binnie Road, Brunel Way. Doctors and nurses of yesteryear : Couzins, Birdwood, Hyde, Mitman, Waylen, Marsden,Wacher, Cameron, Morris, Chapman and Thorpe.

No.67

In view of the ‘near completion' of Phase 1 of the new Bridge Project - next to the old Joyce Green Hospital site - consideration has obviously had to be given to naming of the now completed arterial roads and the ‘secondary’ roads and streets within the residential section of this new development.

New houses for sale have already have come onto the market along what is now now known as "Bob Dunn Way" but in addition we are now getting some indication of the names that have already been selected, or are being considered for, some of the roads on this new housing estate.

The perimeter roads it seems will be named after the following bridge designers : Rennie Drive (the northerly road between Littlebrook Manor Way and Marsh Street), Halcrow Avenue (the southerly road between Littlebrook Manor Way and Marsh Street), Binnie Road (the northern road from Marsh Street through the main residential area) and Brunel Way (the south road extending from Marsh Street and through the Science Park.

However the roads and streets in the residential housing area - now nearing completion - are to be given the names of doctors and nurses associated with Joyce Green Hospital. The suffixes have not yet been decided upon but nine names are apparently going to be selected from the following eleven: Couzins, Birdwood, Hyde, Mitman, Waylen, Marsden, Wacher, Cameron, Morris, Chapman and Thorpe.

Miss Wacher, Miss Thorpe and Miss Couzins were all ex-Matrons of Joyce Green Hospital; Drs Mitman, Marsden and Cameron were medical men of previous eras but who were Birdwood, Hyde, Waylen, Morris and Chapman ?

How is your history ? Can anyone remind us who these 'stars' of Joyce Green's past were ?