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.
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.
Printing from blocks.
Mid-twentieth century wood and zinc photoengraving blocks in the Maitland Hospital Collection, and the skilled and labour intensive work that was involved in printing from them.
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.
Pills and potions.
Historical equipment, books and apothecary jars from Maitland Hospital’s pharmacy.
Hospital staff.
Adrian Lockhart’s painting ‘Hospital staff’ and a small collection of items are displayed in the new Maitland Hospital in honour of the staff who, in their many and varied roles, have provided health care throughout the history of the hospital.
Openings and public events.
A display in the new Maitland Hospital marking the many public events and openings throughout the hospital’s history.
Distract and play.
An artwork by Anita Johnson and a 1950s photograph as reminders of creative ways to distract and entertain children in the hospital. The items are on display in the new Maitland Hospital.
A new timeline.
The timeline created for the opening of the New Maitland Hospital in January 2022.
The smell of porridge.
Paediatrician Keith Howard shares his memories of working in the children’s ward at Maitland Hospital from the late 1970s to 2014.
Nurses’ reunions.
Photographs and albums created at and for reunions of Maitland nurses, and now in the custody of former Maitland nurse Lynette Huckstadt.
Provided great enjoyment.
Rocking horses in the children’s ward from the mid-twentieth century provided some distraction for young patients.
The way we were.
A timeline for the history of nursing and nurse education at Maitland Hospital.
A century of service.
Events and memorabilia celebrating the hospital’s centenary in 1942.
Our family doctors.
Sisters Lyn Morris and Dianne Morante share fond memories of their family doctors, John Abrahams and Maurice Hurst both of whom worked at Maitland Hospital.
Three generations.
Tom Healy on his family’s association with The Maitland Hospital over three generations.