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.
Provided great enjoyment.
Rocking horses in the children’s ward from the mid-twentieth century provided some distraction for young patients.
Uncle Tom.
The innovative campaign initiated by Thomas Pyman in 1903 to raise money to furnish the new children’s ward.
One of our best feelings … charity.
Women as volunteers at and for The Maitland Hospital, past and present.