Hi Phil, thanks for the welcome. Yes I do live in Blackwell these days, on the exact site of the old hospital, I have more of a connection than that though. My Mum & Uncle were both shipped out to the hospital when they were young to"get better". At the time they lived in Alma Crescent, Duddeston, but shortly after my Grandad got a better job and the family, 13 of them I think, managed to get a move out to the new paradise of Perrywood Rd. Great Barr which was still quite a green field area. Mum still has memories of Alma Crescent, one that sticks in my mind was when she was only six or seven and my Gran asked her to run down to the butchers to get Grandad a halfpenny chop, "and tell him to make it a big un". If anyone can remember the Arch family from either of these addresses it would be great to hear. Cheers, Paul.