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.
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.
Provided great enjoyment.
Rocking horses in the children’s ward from the mid-twentieth century provided some distraction for young patients.
Supporting those less fortunate.
Tony Clift shares his research about the Clift family’s significant support of the Maitland Hospital.
My father was born here…
Carolyn Bourne and the Capper family contributions to the Maitland Hospital.