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  • 'A Model District Service'

    'A Model District Service'
    Although in the early 1980s the complete closure of Calderstones, Brockhall and the Royal Albert may not have been official ...

  • '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 ...

  • "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 ...

  • 1914 Brockhall Plan

    1914 Brockhall Plan
    This 1914 plan, with its suggested changes to the Brockhall site, is a key point in the history of that institution. Brockhall ...

  • About Brockhall

    About Brockhall
    Brockhall was opened in 1904 as an institution for inebriate women under the Inebriates Act of 1898. This act was ...

  • About Calderstones

    About Calderstones
    Calderstones was built in the early part of the twentieth century, it was originally intended as a mental asylum but ...

  • About the Royal Albert

    About the Royal Albert
    At a time when the dominant legislation (i.e. the 1845 Lunacy Act) muddied distinctions between learning disability and mental illness, ...

  • Barlow Home for Boys - Royal Albert

    Barlow Home for Boys - Royal Albert
    Barlow Home for boys was opened in 1935. It was a separate building to the north of the institution. In our ...

  • Brenda Kay

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    Brenda Kay
    Mrs Brenda Kay worked at Brockhall from 1954 to its closure in 1992 when she transferred to Calderstones for two years before retiring. Starting as a Cadet Nurse, she qualified as a State Registered Nurse in 1960. In the years afterwards she spent many years nursing, including being Ward Sister, as well as being in charge ...

  • Interview with Julian Lockett

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    Interview with Julian Lockett
    In his interview Julian presents the viewpoint of a boy living at Brockhall, with parents who were both members of staff. Arriving aged 10 in 1970, he left four years later in 1974. His recalled the staff, student nurses, the grounds as well as playing and going to school with other staff children living there ...

  • The 'Bungalows'

    The 'Bungalows'
    In the early 1980s at the Royal Albert, Otto Wangermann, (Senior Clinical Psychologist), asserts that ‘eight prefabricated bungalows were hastily ...
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