Delight as Corbett Hospital site gates renovated
Gates at the site of the old Corbett Hospital in Stourbridge have been renovated following calls from campaigners.
About £5,000 has been spent sprucing up the gates at what was the entrance to the former hospital. Campaigners said the light blue ornate wrought iron gates, in High Street, Amblecote, were in a desperate state of repair.
They had become rusty and badly bent, after a car was thought to have hit them, prompting ward councillor Christine Perks to raise their plight.
She was aided by Councillor Dave Tyler to trace ownership through borough artist Steve Field to Dudley NHS. Health service bosses ordered a clean-up which has now been completed.
Councillor Perks said: "They really have been smartened up, which is great."
The Corbett site is now managed by Dudley NHS, and the Stourbridge Health and Social Care Centre is based there. Dudley NHS spokesman Lindsey Harding said the organisation had found cash in its capital programme to cover the cost.
The work on the gates, which are more than 100 years old, has also been welcomed by local historians.
Corbett Hospital, now an outpatients' centre, has been rebuilt in nearby Vicarage Road.
