Hip-hop-hup, a flit’s coming up – the Sick Kids is crossing the City. We’ll
scoot by skateboard, zoom with balloons. At Little France, we’ll hang in a
cocoon until… crack-crick-split… there’s a new Sick Kids!
This is the first of five posters in which patients suggest how the Victorian hospital at Sciennes will move across the south of the City and transform into a new building at Little France. The posters can also be found on the wall in the corridor between the main entrance and the stairs down to A+E.
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| Collated and drawn by Cate James |
This is how we set the patients' imaginations off...
The Poorly Hospital
The Hospital was getting old.
Creaks echoed up from her cellars, the lifts groaned, the windows whined and
her old boilers huffed and puffed.
The boys and
girls inside the Hospital, the dads and mums and grans and uncles, the porters,
the nurses, doctors, the cleaners, all began to hear new sounds. They thought at
first it was just Aunt Jane’s tummy playing up because she’d eaten too many
cucumbers again before she came visiting. Even the seagulls who flew around her
towers started to look worried. The Hospital wasn’t feeling very well.
PJ Bear knew he
had to do something. He stood in the car park and faced her. ‘You’ve already
been here for over a hundred and twenty years. Maybe you need a change,’ said PJ
Bear. ‘I’ve heard about a place called Little France. We could all go there.
You’ll get better.’
‘France ?’
the Hospital muttered. ‘Is it over the sea?’
‘Let’s ask someone,’ said PJ Bear. He wandered
off and found a traffic warden.
‘Little France is only three miles that
way’, she said, pointing.
The Meadows
stretched out their green lawns and sighed. ‘We’re going to miss you,’ they
said.
All the windows
of Sciennes Primary School
The Hospital
looked towards Little France. And then she began to move.
But HOW?
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| Ideas gathered during workshops at the Hospital by Linda Cracknell and Cate James |
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