I worked there on Coventry Ward with the children who were severely disabled.

"I was lucky enough to have been working on the ward in the long hot summer of 1976, when we had a large paddling pool on the roof and I was in the pool and the nurses were bringing the children out one at a time for me to exercise them. A few of us took some of the children on holiday to some caravans for a beach holiday. 

I wasn't a nurse but a nursery nurse and loved every moment. I left when a few of the children were dying. It made my job a little sad, so I had to move on. 

But I have always been interested in the story of the Mildmay and was very pleased when it came back as the AIDS hospice, and then moved on to a treatment centre, which I visited a couple of years ago. I hope the work can continue."

June 2020