Looking at the CQC (Care Quality Commission) website, it lost its registration as a care home last year. The inspection report summary does not look at all good and the company also have a warning about one of their other care homes. Hamilton Lodge may have been forced to clsoe because of poor standards. One can't help but feel very concerned for the people that lived there whilst they were there, and also after they have now moved on - it is not uncommon for residents' health and wellbeing to suffer significantly by the trauma of a care home move.

Anyway, as a child attening Fairlawn school in the mid 60s I remember students coming from what was then the Eurocentre to the school and standing patiently in class as we trilled "Frere Jaques" or "Sur le pont D'Avignon". We had no idea what the words meant - they were just sounds and noises as far as were concerned! I also recall at least one horse being kept on the bit of high rising ground to the right of the Eurocentre/Hamilton Lodge as you face it, which you used to be able to see grazing through the fence, it was intriguing bit of the rustic plonked into the local neighbourhood.

This post was last modified: 12-02-2014 01:32 PM by Nick M.