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ROSE COTTAGE
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Geoff_Wessex
Lantern Swinger
The only one I remember, Janner (somebody pointed it out to me, honist) was in Terror, Singapore, on the opposite side of the parade ground to the galley.
SILVER_FOX
War Hero
Just out of curiosity - what is Rose Cottage?
Geoff_Wessex
Lantern Swinger
SILVER_FOX said:
Errrmmmm...... a clinic for exotic social diseases.
I'm thinking that the 'Rose Cottage' in Terror was really a localised version of one in Haslar which I hadn't heard of.
I spent most of winter as an Auxiliary Officer at a prison in Dorset which had been originally built in 1939 as a military hospital, presumably a temporary one as it only had wooden huts. (Some forward thinking there, for 1939, eh?). It was taken over by the Septics in 1942. It had around 26 wards, including three set aside for exotic diseases - one for each type presumably - plus two psychiatric wards. Two of those five are the very last wooden buildings still there, due to be knocked down this year as long as some conservationist doesn't delay things.
Rose Cottage was the slang of the time ( last century WOW !! ) for the nasty diseases Jack caught ashore. No doubt its use has faded like many other words of the day. A word I used in my previous comment , ROTTEN, was used at that time for one suffering with VD. Latest term for VD in civvie street, sexually transmitted disease.
Another term for VD of my time ," caught the boat up ". In those days a dose ( VD ) meant stoppage of leave in Rose Cottage so you didn't spread the lurgie. Stoppage of tot was applied too as that slowed down the cure I believe.
I think if you caught the boat up twice as a submariner it meant out of boats as there was no doctors on boats in those days. 'phylis meant straight to Gens without stopping. Must be a lot worse with AIDS and maybe submarine comforts now include blow up dolls. The Iraqi model is self inflated.It blows itself up.
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Another term for VD of my time ," caught the boat up ". In those days a dose ( VD ) meant stoppage of leave in Rose Cottage so you didn't spread the lurgie. Stoppage of tot was applied too as that slowed down the cure I believe.
I think if you caught the boat up twice as a submariner it meant out of boats as there was no doctors on boats in those days. 'phylis meant straight to Gens without stopping. Must be a lot worse with AIDS and maybe submarine comforts now include blow up dolls. The Iraqi model is self inflated.It blows itself up.
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Father_Famine
Lantern Swinger
I well remembervisits to the clinic in Nelson, warts and a bell end like a cauliflower, had to visit regularly to have it painted. 
It used to be a very busy place in the 80's always a big queue.
It used to be a very busy place in the 80's always a big queue.
Whilst in the Plod in South London I was looking for a victim in a large hospital. Some wag directed me to the STD Clinic. When I pushed the unmarked doors open the look of shock on both mine, the staff and in particular some of my local customers/villians to see me was a memory I will carry to the grave.
Nutty
Nutty
whitemouse
GCM
I remember the one in Terror - but not for attendance.
One of the lads slipped in the showers and damaged his bell end and was incarcerated there for a while.
They kitted them out in Hospital uniforms, red strips on No8 shirts, and I think red side stripes on the No10 shorts. He had great fun in telling all and sundry that he was in Bomb disposal !!
One of the lads slipped in the showers and damaged his bell end and was incarcerated there for a while.
They kitted them out in Hospital uniforms, red strips on No8 shirts, and I think red side stripes on the No10 shorts. He had great fun in telling all and sundry that he was in Bomb disposal !!
