Thread: Balham in 1953

Hi Bandit

Is there a sub-registration district on your birth cert that might help narrow things down? I'd suggest you contact Balham Library Wandsworth Council - Balham Library to ask where local historical directories might be kept.

Originally Posted by banditfivealive

Hi aII

does anyone have any info or can point me in the direction of finding out where in Balham there was a HospitaI or a mother and baby home caIIed Queen EIIizabeth in 1953. I was born there and thats aII I have. There is no address on my birth certificate.

many thanks for any info on the area at that time .

Googling for "queen elizabeth hospital balham" gives this as the first result. It includes the following:

Nightingale Lane
99 Queen Elizabeth House. Sheltered flats. The site had previously been the Queen Elizabeth Maternity Hospital, part of the South London Hospital for Women. It had originally been Helensburgh House and the home from 1857 of the evangelist Charles Haddon Spurgeon