Valerie Brent, our roving reporter, currently iinvigilating the Children of Craig-y-nos exhibition in Swansea museum reports the following comments from visitors:
Greek visitors to Swansea express surprise that children were sent away for years to hospital.
Three “wee toughies” boys around 12 years of age tell Valerie they can’t believe that children had to stay in bed for years.
“Anne on Blocks” calls in and says about her time as a teenager in Craig-y-nos during the mid 1950’:”I really enjoyed it there.”
Dentist Jenkins Evans ( aka “Father Christmas”) daughter, Margaret, called in . Now aged 74 she was herself a patient in Craig-y-nos as a 20 year old.
Valerie describes her as a”drama queen”. She had her second husband, a toy boy in his early 50s with her. They now live in Essex and had come back to Swansea on holiday.
It was Dr Ivor Williams who diagnosed Margaret as having TB.
He called around to their house after one social function and remarked how pale and thin she was and advised her father to take her to be x-rayed.
that's when they discovered she had a shadow on her lung. She was put into private room on her own in Craig-y-nos
so that she wouldn't have to share with the other young women.
One nurse who recalls her being there says she was notoriously “difficult”.
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my amanda known as mandy and son in law phillip paid a visit to the exhibition in swansea museum on the 5th of july they said they spoke to a lady who was a nurse at craig y nos about my stay there they enjoyed the exhibition i hope to visit there myself in a few days
carole hughes nee davies
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my amanda known as mandy and son in law phillip paid a visit to the exhibition in swansea museum on the 5th of july they said they spoke to a lady who was a nurse at craig y nos about my stay there they enjoyed the exhibition i hope to visit there myself in a few days
carole hughes nee davies
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