Redhill General Hospital

A Memory of Redhill.

I remember working in Redhill General as a porter under Mr Eddie Chillman. I remember the elderly patients who came in for chest illness, and had to be wheeled through the length of the hospital, and then having to lift them up or down stairs to their respective wards
After a while looking through the glass windows of the operating theatres Sister Bates suggested that I should apply to be a theatre technician, which I did. I remember watching Peter Ring working with his saw, and air drill, using a metal hammer and chisel preparing the bones for artificial joints. He proposed to, and married the sister on the men’s orthopaedic ward
At Christmas time he dressed up and was pushed round the orthopaedic wards on a camel, which was on a trolley