My mother Catherine loved her time as a nurse at the hospital, working there from 1943 until approximately 1953.
Photographs courtesy of Angela Riddiford.
Nursing times at Stockton and Thornaby Hospital, 1949
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I was a patient on Littleboy Ward in 1973 the nursing staff were excellent throughout my stay.
I had my Tonsils and Adenoids taken out at Stockton and Thornaby hospital when I was 5 years old. I remember my mum taking me by but to the hospital and leaving me. I was in a large open ward with both boys and girls I remember a nurse lifting me up onto a bed to undress me and put me in my nightgown. I was very embarrassed and remember that to this very day I am now 72 years old. After the operation I was given a dish of ice cream. Strange what events stick in your head.
Attended many times in that period as a prone accident young boy!
She might have been the one who saved my life on 8th January 1952 . I had a difficult birth and the priest was called and I was christened . My mother told me that they would say ” there goes the dead baby ” . 74 years later I am thriving . Thank you .