Bungalow - Outside

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Record Number: 6.108

Record Type: Text/Image

Caption:

This is the outside of one of the bungalows constructed around the early 1980s to support residents in living more independently. Eight of these prefabricated units were 'hastily erected' (at the North end of the hospital site) to compensate for the immediate closure of Richard Smith Ward - shut down in 1978 by the Regional Health Authority which was appalled at its poor condition.

Ref: Wangermann Otto, 1948-1991: The wheel turns full circle pp 87-99 in Alston J (selected), Roberts E (ed) (1992) The Royal Albert Hospital: Chronicles of an Era Centre for North-West Regional Studies, University of Lancaster

(Photograph © Lancashire County Museums Service ref: LMRAH 281)

Notes:

Please see Records: 6.100, 6.109 and 6.110.

Keywords:

1980s 1970s Resettlement Ward Closure Independent Living

Community Care Buildings and Layout