Caroline Hill is to present, on this weblog, a remarkable project about The Royal Western Counties Hospital. An oral record was made about the hospital shortly after it closed in 1986.
Caroline has collected together the interview transcripts and reproduced extracts in an easy-to-read compilation, bringing what was said back to life.
"After more than 30 years, most of the contributors will no longer be with us, but their families and people who knew them may value being able to read what they had put on tape back in the late 1980s."
Caroline hopes that this project will be of interest to anyone seeking to know more about the history of the village of Starcross because of the memories it contains of life inside and outside the hospital, going back to the 1930s.
The full interview transcripts will be lodged with other Starcross documentation at the Devon archives in the Devon Heritage Centre.
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