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Harry Oldham in the late 1980s.

Courtesy of Nigel Ingham

Harrry Oldham was in the Royal Albert Hospital from the 1920s to the 1980s. In a reminiscence session in Lancaster in the late 1980s he recalled a rhyme about work.

(The words of the rhyme are the same as those used to end a longer song from Brockhall, remembered by Betsy Bell: ‘God made the bees’.

Transcript:

“God made the bees,

Bees made the honey,

The patients do the work,

While the staff get the money.”

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Royal Albert (51)

Work (14)

Time period

1920 - 1970

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