**institution-map**
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
Former residents (Frank Cochrane, Harry Oldham, Peggy Palmer) remember the meals in De Vitre Hall at the Royal Albert in ...
Norman arrived at the Royal Albert, aged 4 years old, in 1941. He went straight to the relatively newly built ...
Malcolm Alston, a former Charge Nurse at the Royal Albert Hospital, recalls growing up near to the institution in the ...
Dr. Thomas was the Medical Superintendent when the Royal Albert became part of the National Health Service in 1948. Jack ...
Norman left the Royal Albert in around 1980. He had arrived as a four year old about 40 years earlier. ...
During the first half of the 20th century, and very likely into the 1950s and 60s, many residents at the ...
Betsy Bell was born in 1926. She went to Brockhall hospital in 1959, and except for a few months away ...
In Lancaster and Morecambe, in the late 1980s, men and women met and shared their experiences of years and years ...
For many years residents (and nurses) in large long-stay institutions carried out domestic duties – whether on the wards or ...
Aged 15 years old, Mrs Brenda Kay started as a Cadet Nurse at Brockhall Hospital in 1954. Here she remembers ...
Opened in the early 1930s, Barlow Home was the first taste of the Royal Albert Hospital for many little boys. ...
Mrs Creed, in an interview recorded on March 21st 2007, remembered being in charge of Coupland Ward at the Royal ...
Alan Gunn was born in January 1940. Alan went to live in Calderstones in September 1955 when he was 15 ...
Please click below to open the 1955 final two exam papers to become a State Registered Nurse (SRN) to work with ...
From 1957 to 1960 Brenda Kay trained at Brockhall to become a State Registered Nurse.
Most of Brenda’s training had been ...
Betsy Bell was born in 1926. She went to Brockhall hospital in 1959, and except for a few months away ...
