1) The hospital was opened in 1830 and was primarily for young women and ‘unattached mothers’.
2) It was previously called Brighton and Hove Hospital for women.
3) Brighton and Hove News sports reporter Tim Hodges was born there in late January some years ago.
4) The wards were known colloquially as Goldsmid, Church and Hove. So it is possible to be Hove Born & Bred but be born in Brighton.
5) The building ceased being a hospital in 1971.
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Biggest thing you forgot that the building was the original Brighton Grammar School before it moved to Dyke Road and is now BHASVIC
I was a patient there when I gave birth to my first son Frank le Duc, Brighton and Hove News Editor.
I was born there on 1st November 1950!!
my baby was born there 28/29th June 1965. Unfortunately she was stillborn at 28.4weeks as of now I can find no records of what happened to her little body
I had a stillborn on there in 1959 have been able to find his burial place, have details of help,if you still looking for closure.
I am looking for records of my twin sister who died there 2 weeks after we were born in 1963. There is no record of her in the Brighton and Hove cemeteries and burials, but I have her death certificate. I would really like to know what happened to her body as I would like to mark her resting place, something I have wanted to find the answer to all my life.
I was born there 11.45pm, June 21st 1968.
I’ve never regretted it…
Hello Kevin – this post is very old but I couldn’t help commenting that I was also born there on June 21st ’68 but a bit later in the day. We would have been in the nursery at the same time! All best to you 🙂
Hello Caroline, thanks for the reply!
Sorry mine is a little late!
Best wishes
Yes, I was born there too. The building that replaced it was ugly in the extreme. I am pleased to see the new developers plan something that will fit in with and enhance the street scene.
I was born in the maternity hospital and attended its previous incarnation, the Grammar School, which had moved when that was built in 1911
I was born here 21st July 1958
I was born there on 7th July 1942.
I was bourn there 20th February 1955, so sad its been demolished
My brother was born there in 1968 I visited mum there on my own aged 12. I remember a huge oil painting in the waiting room called The Water Babies, it was fascinating and to this day I have wondered where it ended uo.
My mother was a very pregnant 17 year old Italian girl from Naples brought to the Sussex Maternity hospital but turned away because they were unable to accommodate her. It was April 6th 1947, still in the grip of one of the worst winters on record.
She was then driven through the snow to Southlands Hospital in Shoreham where I was born on the 7th of April 1947.
The story my mother often repeated was ‘the day you were born the sun came out and the snow started to melt.
I too was born there with my twin brother. May 1946.
I was born in Buckingham Road Hospital on 17th August 1946