This ‘Historical Synopsis’ (or summary) written by Samuel Keir (Secretary 1905 – 1937), was published by the Royal Albert Institution ...
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During 2016, United Kingdom Disability History Month (UKDHM) and the Open University produced a map of the larger long-stay institutions ...
Throughout most of their recent history, people with learning disabilities have been labelled and classified. This process was key to individuals ...
Brockhall was opened in 1904 as an institution for inebriate women under the Inebriates Act of 1898. This act was ...
As the world struggles with the impact of coronavirus in 2020, challenges posed by a pandemic are sadly nothing new ...
Calderstones was built in the early part of the twentieth century, it was originally intended as a mental asylum but ...
Harrry Oldham was in the Royal Albert Hospital from the 1920s to the 1980s. In a reminiscence session in Lancaster in ...
Frank Cochrane and Harry Oldham, former residents, remember the food and seating arrangements in De Vitre Hall at the Royal ...
This is an extract from a reminiscence session at the College of Adult Education, Lancaster on October 16th 1987.
Two former ...
In an interview on March 21st 2007, Mrs. Creed recalled a story told to her by one of women she ...
Following the sale of Brockhall Hospital to the developer Gerald Hitman, in 1993 a memorial was erected on the site ...
Around 1200 individuals who lived in Calderstones were buried in the cemetery.
When the long-stay institution was largely demolished around 2000, ...
Wilhelmina D Family Story: Part One
As said in the introduction, Wilhelmina D, born on January 20th 1912 was sent from ...
Wilhelmina D Family Story: Part Four
The documents here chart Wilhelimina leaving Calderstones and returning to her family home in Charlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester.
May ...
Wilhelmina D Family Story: Part Three
Following the story of Wilhelmina D, between February and April 1922 there were letters from the family ...
Wilhelimina D Family Story: Part Two
Wilhelmina D was admitted to Brockhall in March 1921, and in December 1921 she appears to ...
In this short video extract, filmed in the early 1990s, Frank Cochrane talks about the day of his arrival at ...
Here is a copy of the November 1927 Final Nursing Examination for Candidates in Mental Deficiency Work. (Courtesy of Duncan Mitchell)
As an ...
Two former Royal Albert Hospital residents, Frank Cochrane and Harry Oldham recalled their experiences of taking a bath as young men ...
Norman arrived at the Royal Albert in the early 1940s aged 4 years old. He went on the boys’ ward ...
Former residents (Frank Cochrane, Harry Oldham, Peggy Palmer) remember the meals in De Vitre Hall at the Royal Albert in ...
The Royal Albert, as with similar institutions, had its own farm, gardens and an orchard. Although supplies were bought as ...
Memories of life at the Royal Albert in the first half of the last century touch upon meal times in ...
