Harrry Oldham was in the Royal Albert Hospital from the 1920s to the 1980s. In a reminiscence session in Lancaster in ...
Betsy Bell was born in 1926. She went to Brockhall hospital in 1959, and except for a few months away ...
Betsy Bell was born in 1926. She went to Brockhall hospital in 1959, and except for a few months away ...
People often tried to abscond or escape from the long-stay institutions. Here ‘Frank’ talks about how he escaped from Brockhall Hospital ...
In Lancaster and Morecambe, in the late 1980s, men and women met and shared their experiences of years and years ...
Opened in the early 1930s, Barlow Home was the first taste of the Royal Albert Hospital for many little boys. ...
“We had to see this doctor”
Frank (not real name) was born in 1958 and went into Brockhall aged 4 in ...
Peggy Palmer was in the Royal Albert Hospital, Lancaster for many years before leaving in the 1980s.
She attended a reminiscence ...
Christine Whalley was a Cadet Nurse at Brockhall from about October or so in 1972 to December 1973. She was ...
In the early 1970s, when a young woman, June Flynn was a student nurse at Calderstones. As was usual during ...
In 1977 a group of nurses occupied two of the wards at Calderstones. According to the newspaper report they were ...
