A Monthly chance to look at images of Staff, Patients, Wards and Events from the past.
Are any the faces familiar?
A past Friend, Granddad, Grandma or just a memory?
Each month we will show a numbers of images from the past with the year the image was taken.
Check each month over the year you may see a face you remember.

With a cure now for TB Park Hospital became an Orthopaedic Hospital treating patients with broken limbs.
With the breaking of a limb or a stained back the muscles become wasted and so gentle excises is advised. Also to counter boredom, activities are also encouraged such as basket making, table tennis or knitting.
There was workshop where tools and machines could be used.
A very popular treatment was Hydrotherapy, a large pool of warm water where buoyancy helped the patient take exercise that could not normally be managed. A large number of the patients were young boys or men who due to their enthusiasm or lack of experience crashed off their motorcycles.
One activity they enjoyed was to visit the local pub, the Guinea, just up the Bedford road. They got here either by wheelchair or on crutches avoiding the cow pats and in the evening a group would make their way to the pub for some light refreshment. The interesting part was on the return where often the wheelchairs become caught in the cattle grid or they had to face the matron who always waited their return.

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