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.
Titillating stories.
Remembering the first nurses’ residence at The Maitland Hospital. It was built in the late 1920s and demolished in 1993 to make way for new hospital buildings.
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.
Each with its gilt-edged label.
Pharmaceutical materials and equipment from the Maitland Hospital Collection that hint at the complex and skilled work of Maitland Hospital pharmacists over time.
Take what you want.
Steve Bone describes items from the Maitland Hospital in the safekeeping of the Maitland and District Historical Society.
Maternity Nurse.
Introducing Susan O’Doherty’s soft sculpture representing motherhood and midwives at The Maitland Hospital.
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.
After the storm.
Kevin Parsons shares a stunning photograph he took of The Maitland Hospital following a big storm in 2015.
A place for health.
Artworks in the hospital that connect to country and to the Wonnarua songlines that pass across and around the hospital site.
For seasons, for days and years…
Artist G.W. Bot shares thoughts about the work she is creating for the exhibition at the Maitland Regional Art Gallery.
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.
Drawing memories.
Artworks created by Peter Poulet in response to hearing memories about The Maitland Hospital and Maitland more broadly.
How lovely is this doorway.
Some of the architectural features from different eras scattered across The Maitland Hospital site.
The biggest thing we’ll miss.
The memorable views and scenes from the hospital windows that look across the Mt Pleasant floodplain.