DID you know that two Colne streets – Casserley Road and Allison Grove – were named after two hospital matrons.
Miss Casserley was the first matron of Hartley Hospital, in Laneshawbridge, after it opened in 1924.
Over the following quarter-of-a century, it developed modern treatments, adding X-ray and outpatient departments to its facilities. By the end of the war in 1947, the staff also had comfortable sitting rooms.
Miss H I Allison was made matron of the Christiana Hartley maternity home in 1926 and which, by 1947, had doubled in size.
The Hartley Hospital had actually started out on the home’s Barrowford Road site, when it was known as Colne Cottage Hospital.
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