**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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
For many years residents (and nurses) in large long-stay institutions carried out domestic duties – whether on the wards or ...
Mrs Creed, in an interview recorded on March 21st 2007, remembered being in charge of Coupland Ward at the Royal ...
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 ...
Maggie Potts and Rebecca Fido (in their book ‘A fit person to be removed’) talk about the ‘three R’s’ of ...
Frank Cochrane and James Leach remember Mrs. Wareing, the Matron at the Royal Albert Hospital from 1962 to 1972. Frank ...
John Thompson was born in April 1942. John went to live in Calderstones in November 1966 when he was 24 ...
John Thompson was born in April 1942. John went to live in Calderstones in November 1966 when he was 24 ...
Alan Gunn was born in January 1940. Alan went to live in Calderstones in September 1955 when he was 15 ...
SMG was born in 1958 and went into Brockhall aged 4 in 1962, leaving later in 1960s. He returned to Brockhall ...
Alan Gunn was born in January 1940. Alan went to live in Calderstones in September 1955 when he was 15 ...
Patrick Burke, born in 1951, was in Calderstones as a boy and teenager in the early 1960s. After his life in ...
