Drama in the Thackray Museum!

The Thackray Museum, Leeds is delighted to have acquired props from the set of the popular drama series Casualty 1909, aired on BBC One between August and September 2009.
The six part drama series was produced using case notes, ward reports, autopsy records and diaries to create a portrait of the doctors, nurses and patients of the Royal London Hospital in 1909. The Thackray Museum was approached in October by Stone City Films Ltd, as an opportunity had arisen to acquire parts of the Casualty 1909 set. The staff at the Thackray Museum jumped at the chance to gain such a unique resource, and are very grateful to Stone City Films Ltd for the opportunity.
The props gained include; blankets, pillows, reproduced packets of medicine, bandages, costumes, stretchers, trunks, period light fittings, bedside cabinets and two sinks. These items will be of huge benefit to family events and the education department, and will be used to enhance the Florence Nightingale education sessions run at the Museum for pupils in years 1 and 2. Pupils meet Florence Nightingale and engage in an interactive workshop to find out how she revolutionised hospitals after her experiences in The Crimea.
Delphi Scott, Learning and Outreach Manager said “these wonderful objects mean that pupils visiting the Museum to learn about Florence Nightingale and her work will be able to interact with authentic objects. You can hear or read about what it must have been like in the Crimean War, but the experience is more powerful if you can touch and feel what it may have been like”.