Rare finds – including works of art and a trolley used to transfer wounded soldiers in World War One – have been unearthed in Swansea and Bridgend hospitals.<\/p>\n
The artefacts came to light after Abertawe Bro Morgannwg health board embarked on a project to catalogue items held in storage.<\/p>\n
Some have been stored away for more than a century.<\/p>\n
Photo: Test tubes full of seeds from Glanrhyd Hospital <\/span><\/p>\n Once a digital catalogue is completed, the board wants to put them on display.<\/p>\n It hopes to secure a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund for the exhibition, which will tell the story of health care in Wales.<\/p>\n As project lead Martin Thomas explained, the idea came about through a chance conversation.<\/p>\n “My day job, so to speak, is manual handling advisor for the board and I was approached about what to do with an old wicker trolley which was getting in the way,” he said.<\/p>\n “When I started to investigate it, I realised that it had been used to transport wounded WW1 soldiers from Clydach train station up to the war memorial hospital.<\/p>\n “It soon became clear that we have hundreds of items like this.”<\/p>\n I wonder what will be unearthed during the search of Whitchurch Hospital?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An interesting article from the BBC: http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-wales-34089790 Rare finds – including works of art and a trolley used to transfer wounded soldiers in World War One – have been unearthed in Swansea and Bridgend hospitals. The artefacts came to light after Abertawe Bro Morgannwg health board embarked on a project to catalogue items held in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-1425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1425"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1432,"href":"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions\/1432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Test](\"http:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/CDEB\/production\/_85251725_2014-10-23105731.jpg\")
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