Visit from General Mark Strudwick General Officer Commanding Scotland

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Touring wards, meeting residents and celebrating the donation of Prince Charles' cask of Laphroaig.

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Records of Erskine Hospital Ltd, veterans charity, Renfrewshire, ScotlandUGC 225

MinutesUGC 225/1

Annual ReportsUGC 225/2

Patient RegistersUGC 225/3

Workshop RegistersUGC 225/4

Administrative PapersUGC 225/5

Projects, Reports and Strategic PlansUGC 225/6

Property and estateUGC 225/7

PublicationsUGC 225/8

Films and slidesUGC 225/9

Photographs and postcardsUGC 225/10

Residents and staffUGC 225/10/1

Events and visitsUGC 225/10/2

Group photograph of residents and members of the Hawkhead Recreation Club bowling matchUGC 225/10/2/1

Residents eating Christmas dinnerUGC 225/10/2/2

Visit by Prince Philip meeting residents and touring the workshops. Includes photograph with Jack Esson workshop managerUGC 225/10/2/3

Visit from Bill Tennant, including one with Donald Kelly the canteen managerUGC 225/10/2/4

Group of women visiting residents, serving tea and sandwichesUGC 225/10/2/5

Residents eating Christmas dinnerUGC 225/10/2/6

Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip meeting residents at Erskine FerryUGC 225/10/2/7

Various unidentified events and visitsUGC 225/10/2/8

Pipeband performing for residents in the grounds of the hospitalUGC 225/10/2/9

Residents and staff lined up on Erskine Bridge, possibly for the official openingUGC 225/10/2/10

Visit by Princess Anne on the occasion of the opening of Erskine BridgeUGC 225/10/2/11

Resident John Wilson on his 100th birthdayUGC 225/10/2/12

Official opening of MacMillan Ward by Viscount Muirshiel Lord Lieutenant of RenfrewshireUGC 225/10/2/13

Visit from employees of Yarrow Shipbuilders meeting residents and staff in the recreation room and the wardsUGC 225/10/2/14

Visit from Prince Charles meeting residents and staff in the recreation room and the wardsUGC 225/10/2/15

Various unidentified events and visitsUGC 225/10/2/16

Visit from school children, meeting residents and playing chess in the games roomUGC 225/10/2/17

Visit by Prince CharlesUGC 225/10/2/18

Visitors touring the cottages and green housesUGC 225/10/2/19

Visit from serving member of the armed forces meeting residents and staff in workshops, wards and recreation hallUGC 225/10/2/20

Visit by Prince Charles and Princess DianaUGC 225/10/2/21

Visit from Lord Provost of Glasgow Robert GrayUGC 225/10/2/22

Group photographs outside on the lawn of residents and staff visit to HMS Caledonia at RosythUGC 225/10/2/23

Visit by cast and crew filming Take the High RoadUGC 225/10/2/24

Resident Edwin Turner's 100th birthday celebrations with family, residents and staffUGC 225/10/2/25

Visit from Sir John Fieldhouse meeting residents and staffUGC 225/10/2/26

Lord and Lady provost of Edinburgh with Mr David Steele in the occupational therapy department making Christmas decorationsUGC 225/10/2/27

Visit from Lord Provost of Glasgow Robert GrayUGC 225/10/2/28

Kay and Bobbie Burden performers in Cinderella with resident Jimmy Fleming (ex RE) in the long gallery in Erskine HouseUGC 225/10/2/29

The Brigade of Gurkhas Bandsmen meeting resident Col Hamish MackayUGC 225/10/2/30

Resident Neil London (ex-Argylls) surrounded by children holding pumpkin lanterns on HalloweenUGC 225/10/2/31

Visit from Sir Hugh Fraser meeting with residents and staff in the occupational therapy departmentUGC 225/10/2/32

Christmas lunch 1986UGC 225/10/2/33

Visit from officers of HMS NeptuneUGC 225/10/2/34

Lord Provost of Glasgow Robert Gray receiving a framed drawing of a car from resident Charles Laing (ex RN) at the Christmas dinnerUGC 225/10/2/35

Patients and staff at the Christmas dinner with the Lord Provost of Glasgow Susan BairdUGC 225/10/2/36

Visit from Vice Admiral Sir Jack Slater, meeting resident Thomas Cassidy (ex Royal Engineers) and Nurse Janette TompsonUGC 225/10/2/37

Visit from a group of former Far East POWs attending a dedication service and reunion at the hospital. S/Sgt Sydney Christensen R Sigs holding a Japanese sword which belonged to his former captors in ThailandUGC 225/10/2/38

Visit from General Sir David Mostyn. Meeting residents and staff in the long galleryUGC 225/10/2/39

Piper from Glasgow and Strathclyde Universities OTC playing to a patient Robert Campbell who is sitting up in bedUGC 225/10/2/40

Visit by Lieutenant General Sir John MacMillan while he was General Officer Commanding Scotland meeting patients and staff in wards and physiotherapy department.UGC 225/10/2/41

Visit by Michael Forsyth Baron Forsyth of Drumlean PC meeting patients and staff in the physiotherapy department and occupational therapy departmentsUGC 225/10/2/42

Staff and students of Inverurie Academy sitting in front of the Erskine HouseUGC 225/10/2/43

Commodore Clyde visit, meeting residents in the long gallery and touring the workshopsUGC 225/10/2/44

Visit by Prince Charles touring the occupational therapy department and recreation areasUGC 225/10/2/45

Visit by Prince Charles meeting with residents and touring the occupational therapy department, and recreation areasUGC 225/10/2/46

Singers and accordion player performing for residents in the MacRobert roomUGC 225/10/2/47

Residents outing on a canal boat on a sunny dayUGC 225/10/2/48

Residents driving and examining various Rolls Royce models during a visit from car companyUGC 225/10/2/49

Residents Hugh and Francis celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary with a cake and flowersUGC 225/10/2/50

Garden FeteUGC 225/10/2/51

Royal Logistic Corps Band playing for residentsUGC 225/10/2/52

Delivery of new Erskine branded buses for transporting residentsUGC 225/10/2/53

Various unidentified events and visits most showing residents and staff in recreation areas and workshops and garden centreUGC 225/10/2/54

Visit by Prince EdwardUGC 225/10/2/55

Opening of the WRVS shop at ErskineUGC 225/10/2/56

Christmas Fair at Erskine HouseUGC 225/10/2/57

Choir performing for residents in recreation room decorated for ChristmasUGC 225/10/2/58

Resident holding a cake saying Happy Christmas decorated with a Santa ClausUGC 225/10/2/59

Residents and staff greeting visitors in room decorated with a Christmas treeUGC 225/10/2/60

Erskine Hospital Shop King St openingUGC 225/10/2/61

Resident John Picken (ex Dragoon Guards & Royal Dragoons) celebrates his 100th birthday opening the first phase of the new hospital wingUGC 225/10/2/62

Visit from Captain George MuirUGC 225/10/2/63

Members of the Strathclyde Fireservice with residents and staffUGC 225/10/2/64

Sir Malcolm Rifkind eating cake with Helen MacDonald (exWRVS) in the occupational therapy departmentUGC 225/10/2/65

Jimmy Logan cutting a cake in the shape of all the hospital buildings with a swordUGC 225/10/2/66

Visit by General Sir Peter De La Billiere on the opening of the new hospital wingUGC 225/10/2/67

Christmas dinner 1991UGC 225/10/2/68

Lord Provost of Edinburgh Eleanor McLaughlin meeting Graham McAdam head of the basket weaving sectionUGC 225/10/2/69

Lord Provost of Glasgow Susan Baird with resident John Cox, Dr Thomas McFadyen and Matron Maureen LundieUGC 225/10/2/70

Princess Diana visitUGC 225/10/2/71

Group of residents in the sitting room of the Dunoon holiday house, decorated with a Christmas tree and streamersUGC 225/10/2/72

Lord Provost of Glasgow speaking to resident Phil McKennaUGC 225/10/2/73

Lord Dean Morrison Dunbar meets residents of Haig Ward at the 1992 Christmas dinnerUGC 225/10/2/74

Visit from Lord and Lady MacFarlane of Bearsden Lord High Commissioner of the General AssemblyUGC 225/10/2/75

Resident John McDevitt 100th birthday celebrations in the games room with his familyUGC 225/10/2/76

Rikki Fulton Super Cop visit and cheque presentationUGC 225/10/2/77

Residents and guests at the Not Forgotten garden party at Holyrood houseUGC 225/10/2/78

Visit by Prince PhilipUGC 225/10/2/79

Sir John Macmillan and Col Martin Gibson and several members of staff in Glasgow City Chambers with Lord Provost of Glasgow Tommy DingwallUGC 225/10/2/80

Christmas party 1994UGC 225/10/2/81

Visit from the Moderator of the Church of ScotlandUGC 225/10/2/82

Opening of the Red Cross Ward and Day Room by Lord Younger of PrestwickUGC 225/10/2/83

VE Day anniversary celebrationsUGC 225/10/2/84

Brigadier Alistair S Pearson Hon President of Erskine unveiling a plaque at the formal opening of Erskine House DunoonUGC 225/10/2/85

Unknown event showing presentations of Erskine furniture and products to Vice Admiral Sir Thomas Baird, former Chairman and others by Chairman Sir John MacMillanUGC 225/10/2/86

Christmas party at Faslane with the officers from the Royal Navy HMS NeptuneUGC 225/10/2/87

Brigadier Alastair Pearson officially opening Erskine Holiday Home Dunoon ribbon cuttingUGC 225/10/2/88

Retirement of Commandant Col William Kenneth Shepherd and his wife in envelope labelled Farewell to Ken & BarbaraUGC 225/10/2/89

Various visits by Lord Provost of Glasgow Pat Lally meeting residents and presenting members of staff with scrollsUGC 225/10/2/90

Resident James Aitken 100th Birthday celebrations with residents, staff and visitors from his regiment Queens Own Cameron HighlandersUGC 225/10/2/91

Santa Claus presenting a cheque to residents and staffUGC 225/10/2/92

Erskine 80th birthday celebrationsUGC 225/10/2/93

Erskine 80th Anniversary balloon launchUGC 225/10/2/94

Visit from members of Royal Navy HMS Glasgow meeting with residentsUGC 225/10/2/95

Residents, staff and visitors sitting at tables and on benches outside the Erskine House having tea in the sunshineUGC 225/10/2/96

Pipe and drum band playing for residents and staff outside Erskine HouseUGC 225/10/2/97

Residents staff and visitors inspecting plans and models for the new Erskine HomeUGC 225/10/2/98

Iain Milligan, Garden Centre manager at the Ayr Flower Show where the Erskine entry won a gold medalUGC 225/10/2/99

Robson Green meeting residents and staffUGC 225/10/2/100

Dancers and musicians from Tonga entertaining residentsUGC 225/10/2/101

Heather belles Ladies Pipe Band members with resident William Peacock Royal MarinesUGC 225/10/2/102

Visit from General Mark Strudwick General Officer Commanding ScotlandUGC 225/10/2/103

Visit from Major General MC Steele Comptroller of the Royal Artillery Charitable Fund Meeting residents in the games room with Col Bobby SteeleUGC 225/10/2/104

Visit from Air Commodore AH Haines, meeting resident William Spence and other residents and staffUGC 225/10/2/105

Argyll & Southern Highlanders pipe band perform for residents, staff and visitors in front of Erskine HouseUGC 225/10/2/106

Visit by Prince Charles meeting residents and staffUGC 225/10/2/107

Visit by Princess AnneUGC 225/10/2/108

Visit by Prince CharlesUGC 225/10/2/109

Sir John MacMillan and Erskine staff at an unnamed eventUGC 225/10/2/110

Mary Morrison opening the furniture workshop on behalf of her fatherUGC 225/10/2/111

Residents singing at a Burns SupperUGC 225/10/2/112

'Removal of Shell to Barras'UGC 225/10/2/113

Pipe band visits and Erskine DunoonUGC 225/10/2/114

Visit by Army, Navy and RAF serving personnel meeting residents in the long galleryUGC 225/10/2/115

Col Gibson with Alan JM Miller author of Over The Horizon 1939-1945 and a copy of the book, proceeds of which went to the Erskine 2000 appealUGC 225/10/2/116

Matron Lundie retirementUGC 225/10/2/117

Lord Elgin's Regimental Band playing for residentsUGC 225/10/2/118

Visit from primary school children, planting trees in the grounds of Erskine Home with residentsUGC 225/10/2/119

Visits from various primary schoolsUGC 225/10/2/120

Various unidentified events and visits most showing residents and staff in recreation areasUGC 225/10/2/121

Remembrance Day celebrations residents with pipers and staff laying poppy wreaths in a garden at Erskine HomeUGC 225/10/2/122

Members of the WRVS, wearing sashes planting a tree at Erskine HomeUGC 225/10/2/123

Burns Night supperUGC 225/10/2/124

Celebration for Matron Lundie after she was awarded an OBEUGC 225/10/2/125

Visit by Isla St Clair, meeting and performing for residentsUGC 225/10/2/126

Duke of Kent visitUGC 225/10/2/127

Official opening of the Erskine Mains Home by Princess AnneUGC 225/10/2/128

Official opening of the new Erskine Home by Prince CharlesUGC 225/10/2/129

Red Cross House formal opening and dedicationUGC 225/10/2/130

McKeller House dedication includes photographs of film crew filming and various visitors looking at the McKeller wall plaqueUGC 225/10/2/131

Yarrow House dedication with Sir Eric and Lady YarrowUGC 225/10/2/132

Visit by Jimmy Logan meeting patients and staff at ChristmasUGC 225/10/2/133

Children performing a nativity playUGC 225/10/2/134

Santa Claus sleigh being pulled by a tractor on the snow covered grounds at ErskineUGC 225/10/2/135

Move to new buildingUGC 225/10/2/136

Opening of a house or wardUGC 225/10/2/137

Erskine Edinburgh Home ground breaking ceremony with Edinburgh Mayor and Erskine representativesUGC 225/10/2/138

Visit by Lord Provost of Glasgow Alex Mosson meeting residents and staffUGC 225/10/2/139

Opening of the Reid Macewen Centre by MSP Wendy Alexander, meeting residents and staff and touring the buildingUGC 225/10/2/140

Moderator of the Church Assembly meeting residents, including resident Paddy MacLeod (ex-Signals regt)UGC 225/10/2/141

Launch of Harry Diamonds Do You Sleep With That Leg On?UGC 225/10/2/142

Dinner / ball in the Royal Hospital Chelsea Great Hall. Erskine representatives including Sir John MacMillan and Col Bobby Steele at a fund raising dinnerUGC 225/10/2/143

Residents and staff visiting Falkirk CouncilUGC 225/10/2/144

Official opening of the Erskine Edinburgh Home by Princess AnneUGC 225/10/2/145

Installation of a Dovecote birdhouse in the grounds of Erskine HomeUGC 225/10/2/146

Queen Elizabeth II meeting staff and residents at an event in Glasgow as part of Golden Jubilee tourUGC 225/10/2/147

Photographs and letters from children of St Aloysius Primary School concerning their Second World War ProjectUGC 225/10/2/148

Residents at Glasgow City ChambersUGC 225/10/2/149

Visit by Princess AnneUGC 225/10/2/150

Residents and staff visiting Glasgow City Chambers with Lord Provost of Glasgow Liz CameronUGC 225/10/2/151

Fundraising and cheque presentationsUGC 225/10/3

Erskine buildingsUGC 225/10/4

Personal PapersUGC 225/11