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Works Dept, Wrightington Hospital - 1992
Works Dept, Wrightington Hospital - 1992
Photo: Bob
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Item #: 16286
The occasion of the retirement of Arthur Turner a painter at the hospital for 33 years.

L-R.
Tom Rigby, David Butler (ret. 2006), ?Eileen?, Mick Banks (left 1998), Jimmy Johnson (ret. 2005), Derek Barton (ret. 1994), Brian Porter (ret. 2008), Ray Cheetham (ret. 2004), Ray Sharratt (ret. 2004), Chris Johnson (now RAEI), Ross Parkinson (still there), the late Eddie Turton (ret. 1998), Jimmy Platt (still there), David Roughley (still there), Frank Brown (still there) and at the front Arthur and his late wife Connie

Comment by: David Simm on 17th June 2012 at 20:05

I spent seven month in F ward, Wrightington Hospital, from November 1956, I still remember many of the great people I lived among during that stay, patients, nurses and doctors and not least the fantastic school teacher, Mr. Jim Moon, who kept our schooling alive for long stay patients

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