Bungalow - Outside

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Record Number: 6.109

Record Type: Text/Image

Caption:

Taken in 2006, this is the outside 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 Courtesy of Mandy Cody)

Notes:

Please see Records 6.100 and 6.108 which contain photographs of these bungalows in their prime. The photograph in this record was taken in 2006, 10 years after hospital closure and at least that length of time since they were residential units.

Keywords:

1980s 1970s 2000s Resettlement Ward Closure Independent Living

Community Care Buildings and Layout