Narrative Native
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Wednesday 01 July 2026 16:23:24 GMT
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Chris :
I'm in my 39th year working at Prestwich Hospital.
2026-07-01 21:14:14
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Chris Jones :
prestwich is not in Salford
2026-07-01 23:07:03
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defcon 1 :
it's pronounced salford not salford
2026-07-03 05:15:52
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big Al :
Definitely a dreadful place to be at your lowest point but maybe a chance of seeing a doctor when now the care in the community is just a total cop out of any responsibility for the treatment of mental health patients. Just telling people to take medication and leave them to it with a visit once a year by a social worker who is closer to a full nervous breakdown than the patient is may aswell be no care at all
2026-07-15 19:09:21
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Jen Hall :
my great grandparents met working there, when they married my great grandma had to quit because married women weren't allowed to work there. 100 years later I run the Prestwich history page on Facebook 😊
2026-07-02 17:22:50
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Russman501 :
My house backed on to it. Many happy days as a kid playing football on the cricket pitch, complete with a pavilion too, even though there was a football pitch right next to tennis courts and a bowling green! The place was massive, was great for kids!!
2026-07-01 21:08:37
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Aly Harris :
It is still a mental institution even now in 2026! Prestwich is not in Salford!
2026-07-26 14:02:03
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JayVee-Ell25 :
I did my nurse training there 86 to 89, and still work for the trust that's headquartered in Prestwich 40 years later.
2026-07-02 08:48:25
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MrB :
my mum worked at Rockley house from 1990 to 2010 and we used to play in the old abandoned church right in the middle of the hospital
2026-07-04 09:12:44
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Marg :
How very sad, heartbreaking 💔
2026-07-02 10:01:14
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Toddyboy :
Very good informative film this is.
2026-07-03 21:05:10
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lynchy the Manc :
My mum worked there in the early 1990’s
2026-07-01 21:01:29
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MancDave :
my gran worked there in the n 70s n 80s
2026-08-19 16:01:57
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Jashy :
it was my playground when I was a kid the best playground ever it had a football and cricket grounds and a bowling green and of course the flying hills outside the church yep it had its own church 👍
2026-07-01 21:44:02
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jussibee :
I trained there as an RMN 88-91 loved it. Great place to work and lived in the nurses home.
2026-07-07 12:29:50
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april :
My grandma was a secretary for a doctor there x
2026-07-20 20:13:12
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💋Sian💋 :
My Gran was a nurse there in the 60s and 70s 🥰
2026-07-03 18:34:16
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paul clark :
Yes
2026-08-06 14:08:42
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hoof hearted :
isn't prestwich in bury not Salford
2026-07-19 09:08:31
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Helen :
My mum went into prestwitch hospital after having a breakdown in the late 1970’s she was in there 5 weeks and begged to come home. It was traumatic to visit her
2026-07-02 07:27:14
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Elaine Taylor :
it's not salford
2026-07-01 20:58:26
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whynottho :
my nan was in there. I remember visiting when I was young. used to scare the shit out of me. horrible. now I work in the field, I know how bad it was
2026-07-01 21:37:49
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Leighton :
where u ended up if you questioned the narrative
2026-07-01 22:06:24
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Jashy :
does anyone remember the lady that danced with the plane outside the hospital or the professor that used to talk in the village?
2026-07-02 20:43:29
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E12601 :
I have a similar story. My Gt Grandfathers brother uncle Johnny had some kind of learning disability, he lived with my Gt grandfather until he married and then lived with my Gt Grandparents all his life and was classed as “feeble minded” on the censuses, he helped my gt gran with the kids at home (they had 10) as he couldn’t work and he was so loved. His disability was mild and he could function. They lived in miles platting, off Oldham rd. in 1931 Ghandi came to visit MCR, he was passing down Oldham rd with dignitary’s in an open topped vehicle and people lined the streets to catch a glimpse, uncle Johnny who was by then 49 shouted out and asked Ghandi if he wanted to swap a football card (he collected these cards, maybe what children collected at the time), he was immediately taken from the crowd by the police. He was sent to a place called Calderdales in Clitheroe, and at the time, an institution for the mentally ill, like prestwich in this video, he never saw the light of day ever again and died in there 😓 my gran, her mother and siblings went to visit every Sunday on the bus but they were only allowed in the grounds, in all weathers, it must have been a struggle but they went as they missed and loved uncle Johnny. On the 1939 register he is listed as an inmate at Calderdales and his occupation was general labourer, his disability wasn’t extreme or caused him not to be able to function normally and it is heartbreaking that this sort of thing happened, he is buried in the church next to the site like on this video, all them people who were loved and meant something to people😓. The site was still functioning like prestwich until not long ago and was classed as a learning disability hospital. John Graham ❤️🙏🏻 you are not forgotten ❤️🙏🏻
2026-07-03 20:28:27
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