Morningside Mirror 11.2010

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Contributors to 11.2010 edition:

Anne Elliot, Darren Rhymes and

Alex Wilde.

themorningsidemirror11.2010 edition

Morningside Mirror was a magazinepublished by patients and sta at the

Royal Edinburgh Hospital betweenthe years o 1845 and 1974. This

new edition o The Mirror is part oArtlinks contribution to examining the

Royal Edinburghs 200 year-long historyin the lead up to the hospital-wide

Bicentenary commemoration in 2013.

I you would like to fnd out more aboutthis and other related projects call Alex

or Ciara at Artlink on ext. 46127.


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FIND OUT MOREFrom January 2011, a new and unique meeting venue forbookings will be available. The Glasshouses meeting room seatsup to 15 people comfortably in a relaxing and quiet environmentwith great views.

For more information contact Anne or Alex at Artlink onext. 46127 or at [email protected].

Welcome to the

Glasshouse editionof the Morningside

Mirror. We would like

to tell you all about

our plans for the

Glasshouses and ways

in which you canget involved...

1 Lantern making inthe Glasshouses

2 Trying out lights in

the Glasshouses

3 & 4 Getting the

Glasshouses ready

5 Alex Wilde

AlEx WIlDEThe Glasshouses ProgrammerArtlinks Alex Wilde takesus on a tour of the Glasshouses,formerly known as Horticulture,

with news about plans to openup the space for staff, patientsand visitors to the RoyalEdinburgh Hospital.We really want to get all thehospital involved. We want tohave the space used as muchas possible, for everyone in thehospital to have a senseof ownership of it.

Activities in the Glasshouseswill be informed by aprogramming group which willchange membership every 3

months depending on what isplanned. For example, we arecurrently looking for peoplewho are interested in helping

us encourage staff and patientsto perform and make backdropsand props for The RoyalEdinburghs Got Talent, whichwill take place some time inFebruary/March of 2011.

The rst big occasion in the

space will be The GlasshousesEvent on Thursday 16thDecember, a programme ofactivity over the day and earlyevening. As part of this we willlight up the Glasshouses. Wewant to turn the Glasshousesinto an exciting place, wherepeople sing and dance, plantsgrow, where people can makebeautiful objects or take a bitof time out and relax in aquiet space.

We want people to think of theGlasshouses as a social greenspace for everyone in thehospital community.

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JENNIFER SIMpSONLead Occupational Therapist for thePsychiatric Rehabilitation OTT,Chairperson for the Health and WellbeingGroup and member of the Glasshousesprogramming group.

What became clear about the Horticulture spacewas how much people valued both what they didbut also just that it was there.

Staff and patients aspirations for theGlasshouses are central to the development ofthis new project. There is so much that we cando; so many ways we can involve people inthe hospital.

The arts give people a sense of involvement, theopportunity to work alongside people who sharea similar interest. And having a space that isdedicated to this is a rare opportunity. Its notabout limits, its all about possibilities.

Having the Glasshouses as a resource whereyou can drop in, where physical access isnt aproblem and you can stay for as long as you wantto, is what is needed. People will be able to takepart at whatever level theyre able to and willhave the opportunity to mix with other folk fromelsewhere in the hospital.

6 Tom Watson, the

gardener, pruning vines

in Glasshouse 1

7 Jennier Simpson

8 Jennier with Tim

Montgomery, Director

o Operations REH and

Melanie Hornett NHS

Lothian Nurse Director

win a Healthy Working

Lives Award

9 Getting the

Glasshouses ready

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GET INVOlVEDFor more information contact Anne orAlex at Artlink on ext. 46127 or [email protected].


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SEAN JAcqUESCoordinator of The RoyalEdinburgh CommunityGardens and participantorganisation in theGlasshouses

I got into Horticulture in mylate teens. I always enjoyedbeing outdoors and Im a birdwatcher, for my sins. Since Iwas 8 years old. I guess whenyou watch birds, at times whenits a bit quiet youre not seeingmany birds, you look at otherthings, like the landscape, tryto work out why its there andhow its there. That kind ofeventually led me to an interestin growing things.

I particularly like growingtrees and specically apples.

I love the diversity. All theseold varieties have a storyconnected to them. Its a deeplyhuman thing to be involvedin as well. All the plants wegrow, unless you grow wildowers, everything has been

domesticated through hundredsor thousands of generations.Everything has a human storyto it and I just think thatsreally wonderful.

Our project provides a venuefor community groups to comealong and garden. Differentgroups have different motives.Some are really focussedon getting a good amount of

produce to take away. Somejust want a space to be socialas a group, maybe meet othergroups and garden. Andtake part in healthy sociallybenecial activities really.

Being in the Glasshouses is areally nice opportunity for us toextend the growing season andto make use of a lovely coveredenvironment on days whenthe weather is not so good. Weplan workdays a long time inadvance so people know whenthey can turn up, but obviously

there are limitations with doingthat. So having that space isgoing to make a big difference.And it will allow us to propagateseedlings for planting out in thevegetable gardens, which willagain also make a big difference.

cOME AlONGFeel free to drop by or takea stroll through the gardensany time.

cOME AlONGVisit the Verandah Tearoomsat The Royal Hospital.A warm welcome awaitspatients and visitors in thecomfortable surroundings ofour tearoom.

Open: Mon, Tues, Thurs& alternate FridaysTimes:1012noon and 24pm.

Tea, coffee and snacks ataffordable prices. ContactFriends of Morningside on0131 5376546 ext 46546.

Artwork made in Artlink workshops

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ADRIANParticipant in Growing Spaces in the Glasshouses

Ive been coming and doing gardening once a week for over a year.The Volunteer Hub started me doing gardening work with theHive and then they spoke to Anne Elliot about me working with

Artlink. I was into it when I was younger.Over the last few months, weve been working on the allotments,growing a lot of vegetables - potatoes, radishes, courgettes,spinach, onions and pumpkin. Recently weve been doing a lotof digging and weeding. Gardening is quite rewarding, seeingsomething grow and then using it. Getting a decent crop. Myfavourite part of it is the watering.I would like to learn the proper names of plants, the Latin ones,so I am able to identify them. And about what grows where.Its nice to be in the Growing Spaces allotments. We planted lotsof owers in the front of them recently and there were some good

colours. Adrian recently won the sunower growing competition,

made a bird table for the Growing Plots and created designs for

the ADC internal courtyard.

WINNERSunfowergrowingcompetition!

10 Sean Jacques

11 Adrians veg

plot within the Craiglea

plot marigolds,

livingston daisies,

potatoes, sunfowers

and strawberries

12 Adrians sunfower

in August 84 inches

13 Adrian picking

spinach at the

growing beds

14 Adrians prize

winning sunfowerSpINAcH

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KENNy FERGUSSONGardens SuperIntendentWhen I came to work in the groundsof the hospital, 20 years ago, I wasbased near where the YPU is now, thatarea was a vegetable garden for staffand patients. The Orchard Clinic wasoriginally the Estates workshops andgarages. We used to keep ourequipment there.When I rst started there were 5

gardeners who worked on the gardensof the Royal Edinburgh Hospital, I was

told, that if a gardener was prepared towork with a resident, they were paida bit extra. Then it all changed and webegan gardening across a number ofdifferent hospital sites.

Long before I started, the back of theOrchard Clinic had been a piggery.I was also told that the main car parkhad been tennis courts. I suppose lotsof hospitals had that sort of thing, likebowling greens and vegetable gardens.It was the Victorian style of lookingafter people. They used to have trophiesfor patients and staff for who had thebest kept (garden) area in the hospital.That was a way of encouraging peopleto work harder, get the competitivespirit going!We work here once a week now, keeping

the place safe and as tidy. I never get upin the morning and dont want to go towork Its still a great job.

A HISTORy OFTHE REH GARDENS

15 Kenny Fergusson

with his Estates

Management Team

(1620) with kind

permission o Lothian

Health ServicesArchive, Edinburgh

University Library

16 MacKinnon (West)

House 1958

17 Old patients garden

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GET IN TOUcHContact Anne or Alex on 6127/6128 if youwould like to perform or make stage sets. Weare looking for musicians, singers, magiciansand speciality acts as well as people who wantto get involved in the putting the show on creating lighting, sound, props and stage sets.

THE ROyAlEDINBURGHSGOT TAlENT

Youve seen this man before? This is Jim Hillfrom Patients Funds.But you might have seenhim somewhere else before that.

Did you know Jim has twice been on Top of thePops alongside the likes of Cliff Richard, TheFour Tops, Lulu and Slade? As a drummer inthe pipes and drums & military band of theRoyal Scots Dragoon Guards he recorded

Amazing Grace and went to no 1 in the UK,Canada, Australia, South Africa and Ireland inthe summer of 1972. Last time he checked ithad sold 38 million copies!

Not only that but the regiment went on tohave another 2 top ten hits and toured Canada,Australia (three times), New Zealand andAmerica coast to coast with all 65 bandmembers in one Greyhound bus. They evenopened their US tour with a gig at New YorksMadison Square Gardens.

Hes played for the likes of the President ofFrance at the Presidential Palace in Paris andonce met Charlie Chaplin. It doesnt stop there.

Before his days in the army Jim could be seenplaying in the brilliantly named Mod band The

Modest and got used to fame early playing thesame stage as The Bay City Rollers!Look outfor Jim next year when we hope to be temptinghim out of musical retirement for The RoyalEdinburghs Got Talent Watch this space.

Aletterbyananonymouspatientfromthe1911

MorningsideMirrorgivessomeideaofwhatthissettingwaslikeandtheworkdone bypatientsontheland.

Theresfarmland,anddairyland,kitchengardens,andalongwalkandhorsesandpigs,anddogsandrabbits,andaman withaguntokeepdownvermin,andnottoscareawayanywearyones who mayfndpotatoestoclat,orneeps,orhaytocut,orcorn

tobind,orworkindoors.

TherehasalsobeensomeeducationalinterestinhorticultureasseeninanevenearlierMirror,from1870,whichincludesareportofabotanylectureonThePartsofaPlantbyJohnSadlerFRPS,apparentlyattendedwellbystaffandpatients.

By1932theemphasisseemstohaveshiftedslightlytohorticultureasoccupationaltherapywiththeproposaltoturna3acrepatchofgroundbyCraigHouseintoavegetablepatchandorchardforpatientswhowereinterestedingardening.Thereisalsomentionatthistimeofbothanapiaryforkeepingbeesandanaviaryforthemanybirdloversamongthepatients.Theabundanceofbirdsandwildlife(apparentlyRoeDeercouldbeseendailyaslateas1970)onthesitearenotedregularlyindocumentsfromthroughoutthehospitalshistory.

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NEWSFlASHThe patients library and the

resource room will soon be

moving from the Craiglockhart

Centre to the Clouston room.

This will be a fantastic spaceaccessible to staff, patients,

carers and visitors.

It will have internet, books and

information and comfortable

seating areas for people to

relax and read.

Watch out for more information

on notice boards and in

your ward.

REH pATIENTS

cOUNcIl MEETINGS

2011:2.003.30pm, Board Room,

Royal Edinburgh Hospital

24th January28th March

30th May

25th July

26th September

ANNUAl GENERAl MEETING:1.30pm

28th November

T: 0131 5376462

E: [email protected]

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