Winmarleigh Dances
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Record Number: 14.103
Record Type: Text/Image
Caption:
Photograph of the inside of Winmarleigh Hall taken from the balcony in 2006.
(Photo Ref. 34 IMG 7469 Courtesy of Mandy Cody)
Summary:
During the course of meetings at the Adult College, Lancaster in June and July 2006 a man who had been in the hospital during the 1940s and 1950s recalled unpleasant memories about the separation of men and women at the regular Winmarleigh Hall dances.
He remembers how the Matron, Mrs Wareing, kept girls and boys apart at the Winmarleigh Hall dances. ‘She wasn’t nice. She was always putting the girls the other side. We can’t sit with the girls… “ He wanted to sit with the girls. “I tried it. It wouldn’t work.” In Winmarleigh Hall when he tried to sit with the girls, “She (Matron) would turn round and tell me to get out.”
(Ref 22 UTP Group Sum)
He remembers how the Matron, Mrs Wareing, kept girls and boys apart at the Winmarleigh Hall dances. ‘She wasn’t nice. She was always putting the girls the other side. We can’t sit with the girls… “ He wanted to sit with the girls. “I tried it. It wouldn’t work.” In Winmarleigh Hall when he tried to sit with the girls, “She (Matron) would turn round and tell me to get out.”
(Ref 22 UTP Group Sum)
Notes:
Keywords:
Winmarleigh Hall Photograph Sexual Segregation Resistance Punishment
Men Women Male Female Regime