At the latest Spike volunteers gathering, the work of the St Luke’s Hospital Heritage Project was celebrated with the presentation of a plaque, marking the site of the Guildford Union Workhouse and telling of it’s history. This was purchased with grant funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund and will be a permanent source of information on an important part of Guildford’s local history for generations to come.
That’s was very emotional, I was in Harper Ward a number of times in the sixties, so many sketchy but strong memories, visions,views, nurses, smells, Hilary a young girl with a tumour that couldn’t be operated on because of the position. I’m sure there were photos taken maybe by the Surrey Ad. With Hilary and me and a cake, for some reason I think it was something to do with Tescos , don’t know if it was ever used…
Dear Elaine, Thanks so much for your comments. We are still gathering new material from the 1960s so if you would like to have a look in the archives or perhaps give us some rough dates, we can see what else we can find!