April 28, 2016
Elizabeth Horridge was born in Sheffield in February 1886. She trained at the North Derbyshire Hospital and worked at Jessop Hospital for Women and the General Infirmary, Stoke on Trent, where she was a Sister of a surgical ward.
April 28, 2016
The story of Charles Francis Hutchings was brought to us by a museum visitor, Michael Hutchings, who worked at The Glenside Hospital as a carpenter. Michael discovered that his grandfather had died at Beaufort in 1919.
April 28, 2016
Hilda Newport was born in Melbourne, Australia. She came over to the UK in 1910 and was a staff nurse at the Middlesex Hospital in London.
April 10, 2016
A week in the life of a 1980s nursing assistant, preparing long term patients for life outside of hospital. A lively holiday at Butlins holiday park, including a massive bar and a volcano that erupted every 30 minutes. Welcome to normality.
March 20, 2016
Asylum Lives blog post by Paul Tobia
This blog starts with the lives and experiences of people who suffered from mental health problems from 1861 to 1900 at the Bristol Lunatic Asylum
March 1, 2016
Sergeant Harry Cator was born in Drayton, Norfolk to a railway worker. He joined the British Army in September 1914 and arrived on the Western Front in June 1915 as a Sergeant in The East Surrey Regiment
March 1, 2016
Albert Proud was born and lived his entire life in Benwell. He joined the North East Sea Service in 1915, and was wounded in the hand in 1916
March 1, 2016
At the beginning of our project, while assessing the Beaufort Archive at The Glenside Hospital Museum, we found a copy of John Mulholland’s Medical Report. He was at Beaufort in 1917. We have matched this report with his Service Record.
March 1, 2016
James Gaskell was born in Chorley, Lancashire. He enlisted in The East Lancashire Regiment (The Chorley Pals) on the 15th September 1914, giving his age as 19 years 8 months, and his occupation as weaver.
March 1, 2016
Harry Cogswell was born in Box, Wiltshire, the second of four children. He suffered from poor health throughout his childhood, but he loved singing and was a chorister at his local church.
March 1, 2016
Australian Sapper Carl Eliasson enlisted on the 20th June 1916. His enlistment papers tell us hat he was a telegraphist from Fremantle Australia
March 1, 2016
George Pine was a Bristol boy who fought with the Gloucesters from 1915 to 1918. He left for France in March 1915 aged 23.
