Fond memories have been shared by dozens following an appeal to readers.
Southport Promenade Hospital was shut down in 1990 after being a place of care and attention from 1853. After almost 150 years the hospital closed its doors for the last time and has since been transformed into luxury apartments on the promenade.
The hospital was initially built for the Southport Strangers' Charity and treated people for the entire time it was open, with it being turned into an emergency hospital for those injured in Liverpool during WWI and WWII. It's believed that the hospital joined the NHS in 1948 offering services for acute medical conditions and spinal injuries.
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The spinal ward was transferred to Southport Hospital in 1988 before the hospital shut its doors in 1990. ECHO readers have been reminiscing on their trips to the hospital, with not all being good.
People were quick to share their memories on the Sefton Live Facebook page. Martin Walsh remembers when he was put in the adult ward when he was a boy.
Martin commented: "[I] had a pencil removed from my leg in there about 1981 and was in for five days. I was about nine or ten but put on an adult ward. The nurses spoilt me rotten and it was the first time I had milky coffee."
Tracy Magee shared a not so pleasant memory involving chewing gum. She wrote: "I had my tonsils out there too and I used to kneel on my bed looking out of the window hoping I'd see my dad's car driving past. I also remember the boy in the bed beside me hiding chewing gum and passing me some when the nurses weren't looking and after I'd chewed it had nowhere to put it so I put it under my pillow but I ended up with it all stuck in my hair the following day! I must've only been about 5"
Malcolm Gregson shared his memory of sunbathing on one of the rooves at the hospital. He commented: "In and out up to being 12. Then back in when I was 15 and 17, O ward had toilets at the end with stairs leading down to D ward the first toilet had a window that you could climb out and in the summer you could sunbath on the internal roof never got caught."
