BRISLINGTON

Brislington House, Gulgong

Brislington House, Gulgong

Brislington House, Gulgong

Advertisement Gulgong Advertiser -1936

‘Brislington Private’ Hospital, Home Street,

Outdoor Patients also Attended,

Sister Grace I. Hague, Phone 75

Source: Amber Hague

Brislington House, at 5 Homer Street Gulgong, was built for Mr. Edward (Ted) Stott in 1899, by bricklayer and builder Mr. Alex Wildman. Ted Stott married Margaret McMillan in 1900. They occupied Brislington until 1930. Mrs. Stott was a midwife and used the house as a hospital, but was not registered as a Private Hospital.

In 1930 Ted Stott sold the house and property to his brother Mr. George Stott. George's daughter, Miss Goma, was a double certificate sister and registered Brislington as a Private Hospital and continued running it from 1930 until she married in 1936.

Nurse Stott was a very good friend of Nurse Grace Slapp, as they went through their training as nurses together. Another close friend to Grace Slapp, was a Nurse Jarrett who delivered Denis Slapp when he was born 1944 at 'Nurse Jarrett's Private Hospital, 21 Mary street, Lidcombe.

Nurses Stott, Jarrett and Hague/Slapp of Brislington Private Hospital
Source: Amber Hague

In 1936, Sister Grace Hague nee Slapp took over the business from her friend and continued to run it as a Private Hospital until 1940.

In 1936 Mr. Harry Seis leased the property from his uncle, George Stott, until 1940. Mr. Harry Seis gave up the lease in 1940 and Mr. Len Price took it over. Upon Mr. Price taking over the lease, Brislington ceased being a Private Hospital and became a private home again.

Late in 1949 the property was sold.

Doctor Allport arrived in Gulgong in 1919 and died in Gulgong whilst walking into the Hospital. A son who is a Solicitor and a daughter who married a Dentist Mr. Les Griffin survived him.

Source: Gulgong Historical Society Inc. & Pioneers’ Museum – Research Centre. Mrs. Diane Campbell, Research Centre - 12th September 2006

Elsie Bateup - born at Brislington, 2 July 1936