Is there a Doctor in the house?

[eric]

On Victoria Rd in Keighley, at the bottom of Rutland St I think, is a building with the date 1891, does anyone know if this is the building used by Dr William Ling and Dr Billy Ling (father and Son) and was this building built as a Doctors Surgery? and does anyone know anything about the Doctors in Keighley? Looking over some death certificates I see, (1882) F. Harrison-Tetley L.R.C.S.L., (1885) John B. Berry M.D., (1887) R. Colgate-Holman M.R.C.S.E. (1909) J. Spencer M.R.C.S. (1926) J.L. Walker M.D. I wonder what the difference between a M.D. and M.R.C.S. was, obviously one was a surgeon, but was he more expensive than a M.D. or even a M.R.C.S,E.?

[gemma]

Here is the house on Google Maps: maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=rutland+street+keighley&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=12.113693,39.506836&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Rutland+St,+Keighley,+West+Yorkshire+BD21+1EX,+United+Kingdom&ll=53.859676,-1.912976&spn=0.000743,0.002411&z=19&layer=c&cbll=53.859734,-1.913078&panoid=8vA8fiLMVqU7fzHbLUER8A&cbp=12,223.62,,0,-14.12

Looks like there is some writing under the date stone but I can't make it out.

[danmoorhouse]

M.D. is Doctor of Medicine.
M.R.C.S. is member of the Royal College of Surgeons.

If you want to find out more about a particular doctor you can delve into the archives and search the Medical Register for any year from 1859 onwards. Unfortunately there isn't an online database that allows searches by location yet, though you can search for specific names in the directories on findmypast - www.familyrelatives.com/search/search_medical_register_midwives.php

[keighleyboy]

If you go out of Keighley along North Street and continue into Skipton Road, just past the bottom of Spring Gardens Lane, on the right, there is a house whith a small wooden frontage - between Holker Street and Drake Street. Harold C. LING, physician, born at Scarborough, is recorded as living here in 1901.
Billy LING removed my appendix at Victoria Hospital in 1948, and provided the soothing bright coloured yellow ice cream for us kids out of his own pocket because the National Health Service had not yet kicked fully into gear. I have heard it said, that for all he was a brilliant surgeon, he couldn't stand the sight of anyone being sick.
I was born in Showfield, and remember walking past this house into town with my mum during the late 1940s, and it was a doctor's surgery then. I have no idea what has become of it.

[maryb]

The building was still a surgery in 1971,I remember going there when i was pregnant with my first child.
I can't think of the doctors name at the moment.

Maryb

[eric]

It's now the offices for the Key House project, the last doctors I remember there were Dr Marshman, Priestly, Wilson and Brogden

[maryb]

The one I'am talking about was the one on Victoria road.I think Eric means the one on Skipton Road.

Maryb

[fsharpminor]

The surgery in Victoria Rd was right opposite my piano teachers.
In the 50's 60's, they were the Drs (man and wife) Scott-Cowe. as kids we call them spotted cows.

[haggiles1947]

I used to go on Skipton Road. Dr Ruth Brogden was our family doctor.
Then when Ling House Surgeries opend up Scott Street every thing moved there. Dr Gill is now my doctor,thats when you can see her.

[maryb]

Thats it,Scott-Cowe was my doctor.
They moved to the health centre down oakworth road.

Maryb

[fsharpminor]

For the record our family doctors in 50's-60's were Robert and Lillian Rattray , at the bottom of Foster Rd. Their house was called 'Kilmeny', after the place in Scotland they came from. The name was retained when the new health centre in Ingrow was built.
A neighbour of mine (and a doctor) now calls his house 'Curedom' - I guess he was a better doctor than the Rattrays !
In the Rattrays surgery was a painting of a small town on the Broads. Indeed it was Beccles, rather spooky as thats where my dear wife comes from, though we didnt meet until 1969. We even married in the church on that picture in 1971.

[Admin]

Hi FSharpminor

I lived on Calton Street in the late 1960's.........................loved my house. Had a large back yard which we shared with our neighbours.

My doctors were also Robert & Lilian Rattray, they were lovely people. Dr Lilian was the softy of the two.......their would be a whole waiting room of people waiting to see Dr Lilian......no-one for Dr Robert - he would come out and tell them to go if they didn't want to see any doctor.............

I was very ill when I was 16 and Dr Robert would come daily to give me injections....his beautiful golden labrador would bound upstairs at my mums and jump onto my bed.....HAPPY DAYS.

Kilmeny - was as you say a place they loved...but what conotations the name has.........lol

Jan

[harrier]

Yes, Dr Rattery was a very nice bloke. I used to do a bit of running .... when I visited him, he always refered to me (at the time I thought in a derogatory way) as his 'hairy hound'. This irritated me! A few years later, as an adult, I met him socially. I asked why he always called me a hairy hound. He laughed and explained that he had qualified at Edinbough University and their cross country club was called 'The hare and hounds' He was asking me as a kid if I was a hare or a hound! Perhaps he should have had a look at my ears while I was there!!

[angler]

Does any one remember Dr. Graham who was the main Doctor at St Johns Hospital where he was the Surgeon who used to Operate when babies were delivered by Ceasarian Section Angler

[Admin]

Hello Angler

I remember Dr Andrew Graham well....I worked in the Group Secretariat at St John's Hospital in the 1960's.....the other main Dr was Dr Josephine Cummings........both lovely people, their secretary at St John's was if I remember rightly Jean Reynolds........she was another good memory of the hospital.

Not sure where either of them are now though................?

Jan

[alumpot]

Jo Cummins is retired and believe she lives in Steeton, looked after my wife when she was having our children

[keighlian]

I was sent to Dr Rattray for a medical by Martins Bank when I applied for a job at age 16. He failed me on the basis of albumen in my water. My parents then sent me to our family doctor, Dr. BLACK on Henry Street. Through him I had a kidney function test, passed and was accepted by the Bank. I worked for Martins then Barclays for 39 years and have been drawing my bank pension for 16 years !! All thanks to Dr Black who eventually was succeeded by Dr Dulson.