Henley & Grange Hospital
Were you ever a patient at the Henley & Grange Hospital?
The Henley & Grange Hospital at 367 Esplanade Henley Beach was between Reedie and Marlborough Streets. Some records indicate it was called Henley Beach Private Hospital until 1951 when negotiations began to transform it into a community hospital. Babies were still being born there, and it seemed to have reduced functions until 1957 when it was known as the Henley and Grange Community Hospital.
The hospital was used for such surgical procedures as tonsils, appendectomy, haemorrhoids, dental procedures, Caesarean sections and other midwifery cases. It was a twenty-six-bed hospital with one operating theatre, double rooms, some overlooking the sea, and separate shared bathroom facilities for male and female, a kitchen and some staff facilities but no recovery room for post-operative care. There was a small car park for visiting doctors, accessed from Seaview Road.
Once in 1953, in a huge storm, the hospital front rooms were threatened by the sea, reaching to within three to four metres. With the threat of global warning and rising sea levels we can be thankful it was superseded by the Western Community Hospital in Cudmore Terrace.
Image credit: Henley & Grange Historical Society
More details about the hospital are available in Journal 43 (2022).
I was born at the Henley and Grange Community Hospital in August 1958, my mother had surgery there in 1960
My brother was born there in March 1961 and I was born in February 1959. Dr Turner was the doctor and came to tell my dad he was a father. My father was building the family home at the time.
I was born at this hospital on 16 of June 1943 it was a Saturday
I was born there on the 28th of August in 1954
My beautiful mum lost her first born son/my brother there.
I was born there in July 1956, spending extra time there with pneumonia.
I was born there in December 1957.
I was born there 15th December 1948
I was born there 13th December 1948. Dr Elix delivered me.
I was born here on 28/12/1961
I was born at this hospital on 16th June 1943 ,it was a Saturday ,I am now 80 yrs .
I was born in 1970 and adopted out from there
I was born there 13th December 1948. Dr Elix delivered me.
I was born there 1968 march 18
I was born there 22nd September 1969
I was born there, November 26, 1951.
I was born there in September, 1967. Is the original building still standing?
Thanks for your comment and question Michelle. Unfortunately the Henley & Grange Hospital was demolished in the 1970s.
I was born there in 1959
I was born there Sept 1960
I was born at Henley bch private hospital with my identical twin sister who was born still 26th march 1947
Three of the five children were born there: my sister Helen in October 1945, my brother Ken in April 1948 and me in October 1950. My younger sister, Julie, was born at the Queen Victoria hospital in November 1953 and I assumed that the hospital had closed in 1951.
I was born there 18th March 1949 and also had my tonsils out in about 1961 all by Dr Brian Peters
I was born at the Henley and Grange Community Hospital on 12th January 1959.
I was born there 20 December 1951 Helen Newcombe
My mum was born at the Henley and Grange Community Hospital on 11 October, 1946.
I was born there 20 April 1971. My mum tells me at that time a massive storm hit with water coming into the hospital. Apparently even the Anzac Day parade was canned that year.
I was born there in February 1960 and my birth mother was forced to give me up for adoption. I don’t know if she was allowed to hold me. I stayed in that hospital 24 days before my adoptive parents came and got me.
I was born there 5 December 1966. Dr Rogers was the attending doctor.
I was born at the Henley & Grange Hospital in January 1955. Both of my brothers were born there also.
My daughter Vanessa was born there on 24 February 1971 The attending Doctor was Dr Ping. I recall the food was excellent (akin to the best home cooked).