{"id":1071,"date":"2012-05-07T20:36:44","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T20:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2012-05-07T20:36:44","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T20:36:44","slug":"the-royal-hamadryad-hospital-cardiff-nurse-seeks-help-with-literary-voyage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/?p=1071","title":{"rendered":"The Royal Hamadryad Hospital &#8211; Cardiff nurse seeks help with literary voyage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1075\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Hamadryad.24359_md.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1075\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1075\" title=\"H.M.S. Hamadryad\" src=\"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Hamadryad.24359_md.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1075\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">H.M.S. Hamadryad<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newswales.co.uk\/?section=Health&amp;F=1&amp;id=24359\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.newswales.co.uk\/?section=Health&amp;F=1&amp;id=24359<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Cardiff health worker is setting sail on a journey to uncover the history of one of the city\u2019s famous ships and is asking for help.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Maddern, a Community Mental Health Nurse with Cardiff and Vale University Health Board\u2019s Community Mental Health Team, is based in the Hamadryad Centre in Butetown. The building is named after a 19th Century hospital ship, H.M.S. Hamadryad, which was berthed close to where it stands today.<\/p>\n<p>The ship treated the many sailors who came through the city\u2019s port during the industrial revolution. When it was decommissioned a hospital was built which today serves as the Hamadryad Centre.<\/p>\n<p>Steve, from Maesteg, is researching a book he intends to write on HMS Hamadryad and the Royal Hamadryad Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cCardiff in the middle 1800\u2019s was a very interesting place. It was the centre of the coal industry that fired the Industrial Revolution, and its port served ships that traversed the whole world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith this came the problems of poverty, crime, and of course, disease. With hospital care being a valuable resource, there was concern expressed about the welfare of the sailors that came in and out of the port of Cardiff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Steve said that the HMS Hamadryad was drafted in to provide care before being abandoned and a hospital built nearby.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cThe hospital eventually became used for the general population, and only closed in the middle of the first decade of the 21st Century. Stories abound of the hospital, and staff who have worked there all recount the stories of the \u2018ghosts\u2019 that inhabited one of the wards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe building continues to serve the people of Cardiff, and now houses the Mental Health services serving the southern parts of Cardiff.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am currently researching for a book that I am writing and I would love to speak to any former members of staff at the hospital, or anyone with any memories or information about the hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact Steve on 07970 973929 or at steve.maddern@wales.nhs.uk.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thank you to Dr Ian Beech for this post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.newswales.co.uk\/?section=Health&amp;F=1&amp;id=24359 A Cardiff health worker is setting sail on a journey to uncover the history of one of the city\u2019s famous ships and is asking for help. Steve Maddern, a Community Mental Health Nurse with Cardiff and Vale University Health Board\u2019s Community Mental Health Team, is based in the Hamadryad Centre in Butetown. 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