Convalescent Homes

An elderly relative of mine was in Linden from about 1958 to 1960. So far as his family was concerned, even though it was described as a convalescent home, it functioned as a nursing home. He didn't have a particular illness; he was too old to manage independent living (partly because, like many men of that time, he did not have the domestic skills to look after himself after his wife died).

I know nothing about the regime, even though I visited him (as a child, in the company of adult family members). The visit involved bringing him to a nearby pub for a couple of glasses of Guinness. So you can infer that the regime was not unduly restricitve.

It did also function as a convalescent home. On one visit we also spent time with a friend of my father's who was there recuperating from an operation.