Happy Times at The Hospital

I had to laugh at this photograph I found today.  I was telling my daughter Sophie about this incident the other day and was pleased to find photographic evidence!

I worked at Southampton General Hospital from the mid 1980s and had very happy times there.  I worked for one of the Rheumatology Consultants.  Opposite my office was the Physiotherapy Gym, and in those days life was a lot more straight forward and we had opportunities to have a bit of fun at times (something you just wouldn't get away with any more sadly!).

In the Gym there was a skeleton model and we used to take him out in one of the Rehab wheelchairs for outings on a  regular basis.  He doesn't look very well does he?

In this photo, the skeleton, whose name I have long forgotten, was being wheeled about by Mollie and Rosemary the physic porters, and Sue who was another Rheumatology Secretary.  The patients always looked very bemused.

A few years after that I do remember being tied up with bandages and put in the wheelchair outside the Rehab entrance on my hospital hen do.  I wonder if those photos are still around?!