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  • '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 ...

  • "I’ll never forget things like bath nights."

    "I’ll never forget things like bath nights."
    John, born in 1960, was a Nursing Auxillary at Brockhall Hospital for about a year from 1982 to 1983. He ...

  • "You'd hear them jingle"

    "You'd hear them jingle"
    John, born in 1960, was a Nursing Auxillary at Brockhall Hospital for about a year from 1982 to 1983. His main ...

  • “’Swallow! Swallow!’”

    “’Swallow! Swallow!’”
    John, born in 1960, was a Nursing Auxillary at Brockhall Hospital for about a year from 1982 to 1983. Here he ...

  • “We used to have a lot of debate about freedom…”

    “We used to have a lot of debate about freedom…”
    Duncan Mitchell was born in 1962, and trained as a nurse at Calderstones between 1983 and 1986. After qualification he ...

  • “You'd do your bundles before you left.”

    “You'd do your bundles before you left.”
    John recalls the bedtime practice of ‘bundles’ of clothing. This way of doing things was common at one time to ...

  • 1988 Contraction Strategy

    1988 Contraction Strategy
    Here is the 1988 Contraction Plan document for Brockhall and Calderstones. In the end Brockhall closed in 1992, and Calderstones (as a long-stay ...

  • Alan Senior

    LLDI/005
    Alan Senior
    Includes an oral history interview with Alan Senior, who was a visiting physiotherapist to Brockhall and Calderstones during the 1980s.

  • Clitheroe Advertiser

    LLDI/007
    Clitheroe Advertiser
    Random newspaper cuttings, which have been scanned, relating to Calderstones and Brockhall.

  • Interview with Alan Senior

    LLDI/005/001
    Interview with Alan Senior
    This is an oral history interview with Alan Senior, who was a visiting physiotherapist to Brockhall and Calderstones during the 1980s.
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