Schools of Nursing Forum

Came across this whilst searching the web.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Manor_Hospital,_Salisbury

Used to love taking my PreNursing students there as part of term 1 visiting  the different types of nursing.It had the most lovely rose beds which apparently ( according to Derek the CNO and David the NO) were due to the wonderful nutrients first laid down when the inmates slept on straw palliases which were changed when necessary and put in the gardens!
I also remember Derek telling us how he and his family used to play "spot the asylum" by looking for the towers as they drove around the country.
It was a very interesting visit seeing the wards and different departments. Also remember that all the old Victorian iron fireplaces that had been removed were available for sale.
So many of the hospitals I used to take the students to see are no longer there - Tatchbury Mount (mental handicap), Knowle ( psychiatric), Haslar (Naval), Wroughton (RAF), Aldershot (Army) Park Prewett (psychiatric) and Lord Mayor Treloar (orthopaedic). What a sad reflection on the number of beds and experience lost.