Bedmaking
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Record Number: 6.102
Record Type: Text/Image
Caption:
Peggy Palmer photographed in the early 1990s at her home in Lancaster after leaving the hospital. (Photograph courtesy of Jewli Winder)
Summary:
Bedmaking at the Royal Albert
For many years residents carried out domestic tasks – whether in the wards or other parts of the hospital. One of these was bedmaking which was remembered as part of the routines of male and female wards respectively. Recorded at a Lancaster College of Adult Education reminiscence group on March 17th 1988 Arthur Bamford and Peggy Palmer recalled their experiences of bedmaking (probably relating to a period spanning the 1950s and 1970s).
DS: You were on Derby Home before you came to the Flats. Did you have a job whilst you lived there?
Arthur: Yes
DS: And what was your job on there?
Arthur: Making beds.
DS: So you were making beds as well – sounds like a favourie occupation doesn’t it, everybody making beds?
Peggy: When I did ‘343’, round Douglas Ward you know what Sister Woodhouse called me? She’s a night sister now. She called me ‘the best bed maker in the Royal Albert’.
DS: Did she?
Peggy: 1979 that was when I did ‘343’, beds in big dormitory.
For many years residents carried out domestic tasks – whether in the wards or other parts of the hospital. One of these was bedmaking which was remembered as part of the routines of male and female wards respectively. Recorded at a Lancaster College of Adult Education reminiscence group on March 17th 1988 Arthur Bamford and Peggy Palmer recalled their experiences of bedmaking (probably relating to a period spanning the 1950s and 1970s).
DS: You were on Derby Home before you came to the Flats. Did you have a job whilst you lived there?
Arthur: Yes
DS: And what was your job on there?
Arthur: Making beds.
DS: So you were making beds as well – sounds like a favourie occupation doesn’t it, everybody making beds?
Peggy: When I did ‘343’, round Douglas Ward you know what Sister Woodhouse called me? She’s a night sister now. She called me ‘the best bed maker in the Royal Albert’.
DS: Did she?
Peggy: 1979 that was when I did ‘343’, beds in big dormitory.
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Keywords:
1950s 1960s 1970s Patients' Work Men Women After Hospital
Former Resident Photograph