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Division
Premises
Work involved
8 Cynthia Moseley Day Nursery, Lambeth Extension of heating and consequential internal
decorations
9 'Southlands Shuttleworth Road, Bat- Demolition of war damaged building,
tersea tions to and severance of, maternity and
child welfare centre and office accommodation,
services, etc., from borough council
premises
Eastern General Ambulance Station, Demolition of buildings and tar paving in
Hackney connection with major scheme of alterations
- Shoreditch Accident Ambulance Station Improvements to entrance, widening
way and rebuilding wall
- Hostel for M.D. girls Adaptation of accommodation to be found
Hostel for tuberculous men Adaptation of accommodation to replace
Highbury Quadrant Hostel
Hurlingham Lodge, Fulham Adaptation as an additional hostel for
culous men
Day nurseries
The Health Committee, having decided in 1951 that the day nursery accommodation
should remain substantially at its existing level, no additional nurseries were provided
during the year. The completion of three building schemes enabled day nurseries to be
transferred to accommodation designed for the purpose, and existing accommodation
to be released; a fourth building was completed but transfer was not effected by the end
of the year. Two other day nurseries where the premises were required for other purposes,
were closed. Details of the changes are as follows:
Replacement
Division 3—Springdale Road, Stoke Newington.—Erection of a hutted day nursery, to be
known as Springdale day nursery was completed for opening early in 1953 to replace a
day nursery in requisitioned premises. Although situated in Division 4 it is near the
boundary between Divisions 3 and 4, and will be administered by Division 3 whose area
it will mainly serve.
Division 4—Woodberry Down Day Nursery.—This nursery, adjacent to the Woodberry
Down Health Centre, was opened on 15th October. The day nursery at Woodberry
Hall, in requisitioned accommodation, was closed. Further details of the new nursery
will be found in the description of the Woodberry Down Health Centre on page 48.
Division 4—St. John's Day Nursery, Hackney.—This hutted day nursery was completed
and opened on 20th September. The accommodation, formerly occupied in Ram's
Episcopal school, Hackney, was released for educational purposes.
Division 7—Queen's Road Centre, Camberwell.—Completion of the adaptation of part of
the ground floor of this centre to form a day nursery and modification of the kitchen
enabled the day nursery to be opened on 31st December. The nursery was formerly
accommodated at 34 St. Mary's Road, which was derequisitioned.
Closure of
day nurseries
Division 3—Pembroke Street Day Nursery, Islington.—This prefabricated day nursery stood
on a bombed site required for part of a borough council housing estate. It was relinquished
on 11th April. No replacement was available but it is hoped that this will be provided
by a new day nursery, which it is proposed to erect on a health centre site in Muriel
Street, Islington and by the day nursery in St. Alban's School, Holborn. Children displaced
were accommodated, as far as possible, in neighbouring nurseries.
Division 6—Avonley Road Day Nursery, Deptford.—This day nursery was in accommodation
at the New Cross General Hospital. The Hospital Management Committee required
this accommodation for use by resident nurses and the day nursery was closed on
28th March. Alternative accommodation for 30 children was made available by utilising
part of the first floor of the Amersham Road health centre. This was originally designed
and used for a time as a small day nursery, and by alterations in the use of rooms and
the transfer of sunlight sessions elsewhere, part of the floor was readily adapted for a
day nursery. It is proposed to consider taking over the whole of the first floor at this