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  • "Big, big fellas…" Moving from a boy's ward.

    "Big, big fellas…" Moving from a boy's ward.
    Norman arrived at the Royal Albert, aged 4 years old, in 1941. He went straight to the relatively newly built ...

  • "Even if you wanted to see your friend, you couldn’t."

    "Even if you wanted to see your friend, you couldn’t."
    Frank Cochrane and Harry Oldham, former residents, remember the food and seating arrangements in De Vitre Hall at the Royal ...

  • "It was just another world"

    "It was just another world"
    Malcolm Alston, a former Charge Nurse at the Royal Albert Hospital, recalls growing up near to the institution in the ...

  • "No pleasure, no sweets, no spending money."

    "No pleasure, no sweets, no spending money."
    Norman arrived at the Royal Albert in the early 1940s aged 4 years old. He went on the boys’ ward ...

  • "Out of bathing"

    "Out of bathing"
    Mrs Creed was one of the longest serving nurses at the Royal Albert Hospital. Her career spanned the 1940s to ...

  • "They used to throw food at one another"

    "They used to throw food at one another"
    Former residents (Frank Cochrane, Harry Oldham, Peggy Palmer) remember the meals in De Vitre Hall at the Royal Albert in ...

  • "They were short here in Royal Albert" Staffing during the Second World War

    "They were short here in Royal Albert" Staffing during the Second World War

  • "We didn’t get paid 'til Dr. Thomas come."

    "We didn’t get paid 'til Dr. Thomas come."
    Dr. Thomas was the Medical Superintendent when the Royal Albert became part of the National Health Service in 1948.  Jack ...

  • "We give 'em plums alright!"

    "We give 'em plums alright!"
    The Royal Albert, as with similar institutions, had its own farm, gardens and an orchard. Although supplies were bought as ...

  • "We used to get blackclock soup!"

    "We used to get blackclock soup!"
    Memories of life at the Royal Albert in the first half of the last century touch upon meal times in ...

  • "When stuff was on rations…"

    "When stuff was on rations…"
    Frank Cochrane, a former Royal Albert resident, recalled how himself and others found enterprising ways to make money during the ...

  • “Get up at half past six at morning – buckets out! Scrubbers out!”

    “Get up at half past six at morning – buckets out! Scrubbers out!”
    During the first half of the 20th century, and very likely into the 1950s and 60s, many residents at the ...

  • Herbert Leonard Carter

    LLDI/068
    Herbert Leonard Carter
    Includes an interview, and a handful of portrait photos of Herbert Carter, who spend time as a resident at Calderstones. He was born in around 1938 and went to Calderstones, aged ten in 1948. According to Herbert, he was sent to the institution from a magistrates’ court in Manchester. This was after a series of minor ...
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