The Booth Hall Family - 2008 - 47min - Blackley, Manchester

Booth Hall Children's Hospital was a children's hospital in Blackley, Manchester. The hospital was founded by Humphrey Booth, who had bought the land and commissioned its building; he opened it in 1908. It cared for the poor, and from 1914 for wounded soldiers from the First World War. It reverted to being a children's hospital in 1926. It had 750 beds in 1929 and was the third largest children's hospital in the UK. Begining in 1946 to the hospitals closure in 2009. 'The Booth Hall Family' is a series of interviews with staff, patients and parents of patients who all share memories of their time at Booth Hall Children's Hospital. This documentary was filmed by the young participants of this project, mentored and produced by REELMCR.