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  • 'The bath water had to be 98 degrees."

    'The bath water had to be 98 degrees."
    Maggie Potts and Rebecca Fido (in their book ‘A fit person to be removed’) talk about the ‘three R’s’ of ...

  • 'There were so many people and so few staff."

    'There were so many people and so few staff."
    David Whalley did his nurse training at Calderstones between 1969 and 1972. Integral to the training at that time was working ...

  • "'… the best bed-maker in the Royal Albert’."

    "'… the best bed-maker in the Royal Albert’."
    For many years residents (and nurses) in large long-stay institutions carried out domestic duties – whether on the wards or ...

  • "All the girls sat at that side and all the lads at that…"

    "All the girls sat at that side and all the lads at that…"
    Aged 15 years old, Mrs Brenda Kay started as a Cadet Nurse at Brockhall Hospital in 1954. Here she remembers ...

  • "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 ...

  • "Go back and knock!"

    "Go back and knock!"
    Frank Cochrane and James Leach remember Mrs. Wareing, the Matron at the Royal Albert Hospital from 1962 to 1972. Frank ...

  • "I was running that Refractory Ward on my own."

    "I was running that Refractory Ward on my own."
    Mrs Creed, in an interview recorded on March 21st 2007, remembered being in charge of Coupland Ward 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 ...

  • “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 ...

  • “I had my letter under my pillow.”

    “I had my letter under my pillow.”
    Patrick Burke, born in 1951, was in Calderstones as a boy and teenager in the early 1960s. After his life in ...

  • 1955 Nursing Final Exam

    1955 Nursing Final Exam
    Please click below to open the 1955 final two exam papers to become a State Registered Nurse (SRN) to work with ...

  • 1960 Nursing Final Exam

    1960 Nursing Final Exam
    From 1957 to 1960 Brenda Kay trained at Brockhall to become a State Registered Nurse. Most of Brenda’s training had been ...

  • Main Building - Calderstones

    Main Building - Calderstones
    Here are a number of photographs of the Main Building at Calderstones over time. The first image is when it ...

  • Walking around the Royal Albert

    Walking around the Royal Albert
    Up until the later years of the Royal Albert, and similar institutions, it was very difficult for those living there ...
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