The following memories and stories about the Maitland Hospital emerged from background research, and from being shared by artists, staff, volunteers, patients and community members.
![Did we really look like this?](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fadc3ec9da2506552a39289/1626651701364-PR9HHNDCGI18BQBVNT8O/165.182.jpg)
Did we really look like this?
Photographs and memories of the fundraising hospital revues organised by the hospital’s CEO Ron Pickett in the early 1980s.
![Provided great enjoyment.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fadc3ec9da2506552a39289/1628378796617-9AZIUDVPRV4UGFYTDPZE/CatharineNeilson_MaitlandHospital_328+a.jpg)
Provided great enjoyment.
Rocking horses in the children’s ward from the mid-twentieth century provided some distraction for young patients.
![Uncle Tom.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fadc3ec9da2506552a39289/1626993747883-8JBPEYHNMHREGMFSIYBX/K2-004.jpg)
Uncle Tom.
The innovative campaign initiated by Thomas Pyman in 1903 to raise money to furnish the new children’s ward.
![One of our best feelings … charity.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fadc3ec9da2506552a39289/1620018024293-3F0Z1709TFLRO4D6IVF8/1940s_1.jpg)
One of our best feelings … charity.
Women as volunteers at and for The Maitland Hospital, past and present.