The following memories and stories about the Maitland Hospital emerged from background research, and from being shared by artists, staff, volunteers, patients and community members.
Did we really look like this?
Photographs and memories of the fundraising hospital revues organised by the hospital’s CEO Ron Pickett in the early 1980s.
We’re waiting with you.
Photographs from the Maitland Hospital Collection that capture moments of waiting, watching, helping and lounging around as well as celebratory and commemorative occasions. Prints of the photographs are now on the walls of the Outpatient wait areas in the new Maitland Hospital.
Nurse Finney.
Nancy Finney’s daughters share photographs and memories about their Mum’s training and work as a nurse at Maitland Hospital from 1933 to 1944.
Cutting the cake.
Suzanne Martin shares memories and memorabilia of her father, Bill Martin, and their family’s association with Maitland Hospital.
Imaging prints.
Mid-twentieth century images of the hospital printed from old photoengraving blocks, and now hanging in the Imaging wait area of the new Maitland Hospital.
Openings and public events.
A display in the new Maitland Hospital marking the many public events and openings throughout the hospital’s history.
A new timeline.
The timeline created for the opening of the New Maitland Hospital in January 2022.
Nurses’ reunions.
Photographs and albums created at and for reunions of Maitland nurses, and now in the custody of former Maitland nurse Lynette Huckstadt.
A century of service.
Events and memorabilia celebrating the hospital’s centenary in 1942.
Timelines.
Timelines inscribed on the hospital walls at different times and in different forms.
Trophies and ribbons.
Trophies, ribbons and certificates from the Maitland Hospital Collection and the events they commemorate.
A royal wedding.
Anne McDonald shares a photograph and memories of the hospital’s Surgical Unit staff celebrating the 2018 royal wedding.
An ambulance, a patient and a nurse.
Anne McDonald recalls a memorable ambulance trip from Maitland Hospital to Sydney in 1984.
Uncle Tom.
The innovative campaign initiated by Thomas Pyman in 1903 to raise money to furnish the new children’s ward.
Served the hospital for over 40 years.
Glimpses of Robert (Bob) Brown’s life and work shared by his daughter, Wendy Beasley. Bob Brown was the hospital’s chief executive officer from 1960 to 1981.
Now and then.
Peter Smith captures the past and present of The Maitland Hospital in photographs.
A gold key.
A key crafted by local jeweller John Hart to commemorate the opening of the 1905 building on the Maitland Hospital site.
Roast beef, plum pudding and Santa Claus.
Christmas at The Maitland Hospital, then and now.
A stolen stone and an empty beer bottle.
The bizarre fate of the 1846 foundation stone of The Maitland Hospital.