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It is clear that having ex-patients or a former staff member in attendance at the exhibition adds greatly to the whole experience.

I am having very good reports back of audience participation not only from the local community from young schoolchildren to their grandparents but also the many foreigners who are visiting Swansea.

This week Pam Hamer , an ex-child patient from the late 1940s said she never stopped talking to people all day.

They were fascinated to be able to speak to someone about the photographic exhibition.

One of Pamela's stories is that she woke up one night on the castle balcony, where the children slept outdoors all year round, to find a rat in her bed.

She screamed, and screamed and the night nurse said:

"It is only Joey, the pet rat come to say good-night to you!"


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