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Day 19 already, getting closer to 🎅🏻

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Recognise anyone?

Thanks to Angela for donating an album containing this photo 📷

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A group of women hockey players, with the hospital chapel, water tower and main hospital entrance in the background
December 19, 2024 at 10:22 AM
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Day 7 #Archive30 @arascot.bsky.social

#ArchivesToday often 👀 something like this 😃

Busy busy researching and adding missing jigsaw 🧩 to the Whitchurch Hospital story

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A collage of photos from Whitchurch Hospital in Cardiff. Main photo is a bronze medal.
April 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Day 29 #Archive30 @arascot.bsky.social

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One collection is a few #postcards

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Selection of various black and white postcards of the Cardiff City Mental Hospital which became the Welsh Metropolitan War Hospital
April 29, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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Thanks for sharing it’s #Internationalteaday today @rcnlibraries.bsky.social

We can’t resist sharing this fabulous photo from an album donated by Angela.

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Three nurses holding a cup of tea with a ward veranda in the background - beds can be seen with a patient in a bed directly behind the nursing staff
May 21, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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A group photo on #IND2026 #InternationalNurseDay dated from around the late 1920s into the early 1930s
Matron Edith King seated in the middle and Patricia Sunderland in front of her

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Large group photo of nursing staff with Cardiff City Mental Hospital in the background. Dated late 1920s into early 1930s
May 12, 2026 at 9:24 PM
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#Stocking

Imagine making 178 pairs of stockings!! I wonder how long each pair took 🤔 The sewing 🪡 room had a busy year in 1911!!!

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A green front cover for the 4th annual report for the year 1911. The Cardiff City coat of arms is at the top of the photo Page 62 of the annual report for 1911, a list of all the articles make in the sewing room at the hospital
December 22, 2024 at 12:38 PM
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Edrych yn nôl ar Eisteddfod 1938 / looking back at the 1938 Eisteddfod

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Newspaper clippings book from Glamorgan Archives
August 8, 2024 at 8:34 PM
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Day 5 #EYA @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social

Missed a few days but ready to go again today with #EYApets

Matron King with her beautiful dogs at the Cardiff City Mental Hospital.

THE NURSING TIMES FEB. 24, 1934.

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Black and white grainy photo showing two dogs, one standing on the left and one lying on the right with Matron King sitting in between them. Trees in the background Full page of the THE NURSING TIMES FEB. 24, 1934 article
December 3, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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An interesting image posted in one of the Cardiff history facebook groups by David Ings

This is the view of the hospital as you drive up Heol Don from Llandaf North

The small sign on the right notes: steam roller at work

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A thatched house on the left, hospital ha ha fence and the buildings in the background including the water tower Small sign on the right says Steam roller at work!
March 4, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Feeling nostalgic today and looking back to when we 1st started
Photos taken on ward W1A back in 2015 before the hospital closed

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Display boards with large windows in the background Cardiff City Mental Hospital Uniforms Book male A ledger for uniforms issued Vintage metal cupboard full of various items related to Whitchurch Hospital Matrons Daily Returns Male A ledger
September 27, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Here is Matron Edith King with her dogs, Peter & brother.

Currently research is Matron King so do get in touch if you have any information.

This article is from the Nursing Times, February 24, 1934

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Black and white grainy photo of Matron Edith King (seated) and two dogs, one on the left (Peter) and his brother Background is outdoors with trees The Nursing Times February 24, 1934 Cardiff City Mental Hospital Journal article, two photos, top photo is the previously described and bottom larger photo is a large galleon type ship with sails Screenshot with details of journal article and a copy of the article
April 7, 2026 at 4:50 PM
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#ChristmasGifts

Two photos from Christmas 1949, thank you Angela for donating the album.

Interesting present for Matron 🤔

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Black and white photo showing a woman receiving a gift. Two other people in the background Small black and white photo showing a group of women surprised at the gift Miss O’Shaunghnessy has just opened
December 17, 2024 at 4:56 PM
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For #ArchiveAdventCalendar today, only just!! We had to delve deep to find #ArchiveElves now does this count?? A music programme from 1909 and saved for posterity in the red cuttings book… The Elfin call @arascot.bsky.social

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Spine of a red book titled: Newspaper cuttings and advertisements Jan 1908 - Nov 1915 Programme of Music Inside the program of music detailing what was planned to take place
December 18, 2025 at 11:53 PM