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  • 'I hereby order the alleged defective… to be sent to Brockhall Institution'.

    'I hereby order the alleged defective… to be sent to Brockhall Institution'.
    Wilhelmina D Family Story: Part One As said in the introduction, Wilhelmina D, born on January 20th 1912 was sent from ...
  • "I should never have been here."

    "I should never have been here."
    In an interview on March 21st 2007, Mrs. Creed recalled a story told to her by one of women she ...
  • "I was in a cot when I come."

    "I was in a cot when I come."
    Bill Lamb (also known as ‘Busty’) was born on December 17th 1911 and came to the Royal Albert from Durham ...
  • “It didn’t seem like it’d be a terrible job.”

    “It didn’t seem like it’d be a terrible job.”
    In 1973 Tony Dennison started at the Royal Albert as a Cadet Nurse. Based upon an oral history interview with Tony ...
  • “It’s a fine bloody hotel is this.”

    “It’s a fine bloody hotel is this.”
    In this short video extract, filmed in the early 1990s, Frank Cochrane talks about the day of his arrival at ...
  • 1967 Cadet Nurse Contract

    1967 Cadet Nurse Contract
    In 1966 David Whalley, aged 15, started as a Junior Ward Orderly a Calderstones. He was following in the footsteps ...
  • SMG

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    SMG
    Includes oral history interviews with SMG, who was a resident at Brockhall. Born in 1958, he went into Brockhall as a 4 year old in 1962, leaving later in the 1960s. After spending time at White Ash School, (Oswaldtwistle) Hargreaves House Children’s Home (Oswaldtwistle), Dame Evelyn Fox School (Blackburn) and finally Eden Grove School (Cumbria) he ...
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