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.

We’re waiting with you.
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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.

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Nurse Finney.
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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.

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A grand ruckus.
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A grand ruckus.

Kelvin Russell on his great-great-grandfather James Charles Russell who was resident surgeon at the Maitland Hospital for a short and tension-ridden period in 1859-1860.

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First matron.
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First matron.

Susan O’Doherty’s textile sculpture of Maitland Hospital’s first matron, Elizabeth Morrow, is the core of a display in the new Maitland Hospital about Morrow and what she represents in the history of nursing at the hospital and elsewhere.

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