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.
Graduate nurses - names please!
An invitation to assist with identifying people in photographs of graduate nurses at The Maitland Hospital.
Long hard hours.
Leanne Debenham shares her fond memories of the stories her grandmother, Muriel Morris, told about training and working at The Maitland Hospital.
My aunts trained at the hospital.
Diane Klasen tells the stories of her aunts, Reta and Pat Fleming, who both trained as nurses at The Maitland Hospital.
A Mother’s Day baby.
Miranda Lawry reflects on her third daughter’s birth at Maitland Hospital on Mother’s Day 1993.
One of our best feelings … charity.
Women as volunteers at and for The Maitland Hospital, past and present.
Babies … came flying out of that shute!
Maitland residents’ memories of the maternity ward at Maitland Hospital.
The smell of freshly washed sheets.
Greg Parrey shares his memories of The Maitland Hospital.
Discovering all of this.
Michael Cavanagh shares his research into his ancestor Dr Andrew Liddell, a founding member of the Maitland Benevolent Asylum and The Maitland Hospital.
Success as a surgeon.
1860s and 1870s new surgical procedures by one of The Maitland Hospital’s honorary medical officers, Alexander Morson.
That’s him there.
Kerrie Steward shares the story of her great-great-grandfather, Samuel Fairhall, who died after a fall from the hospital verandah.
Cured, relieved, died.
An overview of nineteenth century patient numbers at The Maitland Hospital.
A practice of doctors.
Holly McNamee shares family history insights about her three doctor ancestors who all worked at Maitland Hospital.
First president.
The Maitland Hospital’s first president and notable local resident - Edward Denny Day.