Heritage Talk: From Bedpan to Pen! - Mansfield Library

Mansfield Central Library, West Gate

Date	21 April 2026
Time	2:00PM
Venue	Mansfield Central Library View venue details

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Photo of Harlow Wood Hospital — Harlow Wood Orthopaedic Hospital. Courtesy of the Inspire Picture Archive

Joy Wood will be talking about the history of Harlow Wood orthopaedic hospital near Mansfield, and her time there during her nurse training from 1977 – 1979.

Joy, who is an award-winning author, will also be discussing her novel based at Harlow Wood - Dead Pretty - which imagines a murderer lurking along the pristine hospital corridors and around the cosy nurses’ home.

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