Last month in our looking back feature we put an appeal out for photos and information on Bridport’s former hospitals.

The town had a range of former hospitals before the current community hospital was built in 1993, such as the Port Bredy Hospital in the old workhouse on the junction of Barrack Street and Bedford Place, before it became Port Bredy geriatric hospital.

There was also Bridport General Hospital, which opened in Park Road, North Allington, in 1915 and closed in 1996 when it was replaced by the current hospital, and St Mary Magdalen Hospital.

Alan Ward sent us a photo of him aged three-years-old at one of the hospitals around 1949 to 1951. He is the young boy being held by the nurse and he thinks he was in for suspected polio which he was diagnosed with later.

Mrs Townsend sent in a photo of some of the workers at Bridport Hospital. One the back row from left to right, she doesn’t know the names for the first two but pictured next to them is Betty, then another unknown member of staff, then Edie Means, Barbara Darby, and Dorothy. In the front row is Betty Coombs, Miss Bowyen and Mrs Standing.

Alan Hardy sent in some photos of Bridport Hospital, which was off West Road on the right-hand side as you head to Symondsbury. His mother worked there as a midwife until 1953.

If you have any photos or information you would like to share with us for our looking back pages, send them to news@bridportnews.co.uk or Bridport News, Fleet House, Hampshire Road, Weymouth, Dorset, DT4 9XD.