From 1948-1956, Dawn Griffiths lived at Headington Hill Hall, when it was a convalescent hospital for brain-injured servicemen. Her book Headington Hill Hall: The Forgotten Years (Lulu, £6.70) is an account of life at the hospital, where her father worked in the rehabilitation centre. Illlustrated with family photographs, the book describes how the children helped to entertain patients and how her father helped to develop a new lift for patients. In 1956, she left to start a nursing career and the hospital closed in 1958. It became “the biggest council house in Britain” and was occupied by publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell before being bought by Oxford Brookes University.
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