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.
Behind the scenes.
1940s and 1950s snapshot photographs of Maitland Hospital maintenance, kitchen and laundry staff.
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.
Pathology 2021.
Catharine Neilson’s photographs of the hospital’s pathology unit taken in mid-2021.
Health Services Unit 2021.
Catharine Neilson’s evocative photographs of the Health Service’s Unit building (the former R L Williams’ Nurses Residence) taken in late 2021 as services were packing up in preparation for the move to the new Maitland Hospital at Metford.
Occupational therapy 2021.
Catharine Neilson’s photographs of the Maitland Hospital’s occupational therapists, their equipment and facilities.
Maternity, birthing and special care 2021.
Catharine Neilson photographs of the Maternity, Birthing and Special Care Units taken during 2021.
Medical imaging 2021.
Catharine Neilson’s photographs of the Medical Imaging Unit taken in January 2021.
Executive suite 2020-2021.
Catharine Neilson’s photographs of staff in the Executive Suite and their offices at different times during 2020 and 2021.
Dental clinic 2021.
Catharine Neilson’s photographs of the hospital’s Dental Clinic taken on 24 May 2021.
Volunteers 2021.
Catharine Neilson’s photographs of Maitland Hospital Volunteers during 2020 and 2021.
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.
Cutting the cake.
Suzanne Martin shares memories and memorabilia of her father, Bill Martin, and their family’s association with Maitland Hospital.
Picturing the hospital in 2020-2021.
Catharine Neilson’s photographs of Maitland Hospital during its last eighteen months at the High Street site.
Vivid memories.
Roger Crouch shares some of his vivid memories of working as a Registered Medical Officer at Maitland Hospital in 1967.
Horse-drawn ambulances.
Denise Porter’s research on the ambulance service provided to Maitland Hospital by her ancestor, Thomas Judge, from 1890 to 1922.
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.
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.
A new timeline.
The timeline created for the opening of the New Maitland Hospital in January 2022.