Entertainment for Hospital Patients

As part of the recuperation process, hospitals often took soldiers out for some fresh air.  The photograph below shows a group ready to set off to who knows where in a lorry from the Roby Foundry.  There was clearly no concern for Health & Safety in those days!  Is that a blurred image of the Tower Hospital bulldog at the back of the lorry?

(John Roby was a wealthy manufacturer in Rainhill and has a family grave in St. Ann's churchyard).  
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Below is another outing in the Roby lorry.

Clearly soldiers looked on the bright side of life whilst in hospital.  Below is a picture taken at a fancy dress party.  it is unclear whether the picture of the orchestra was taken at the same event, but obviously they made the most of things.

Birthday celebrations at The Tower

​Below is a letter sent to the Liverpool Echo 13th May 1915 by a group of servicemen praising the treatment received at Tower Hospital.