Yes, Loveday hospital was a place where many started life there, ( I was born in a better area), I worked across the road from the entrance, building an extension to the General Hospital, that was a strange project, always accidents there, one guy who drove a dumper ( a little truck with a bucket on the front) had to fill some holes for the foundations with concreate, the holes where about 8 ft wide and about 6ft deep, anyway one day he got too close to the edge and the dumper startred to slid into the hole, and he like an idiot thought he could jump across the hole, wrong, he jumped 6ft, but the hole was 8ft, and down he went, with the dumper and concrete coming down on top of him, they got him out because it was the first load of concrete to go into the hole, so the concrete wasn't deep, ( mind you he didn't have far to go to the hospital, ), another time was a guy who was fitting the re-bars ( steel rods), to a coloum slipped and fell but trapping his foot in the rebars, he was hanging there by his foot, they had to get the crane to lift him up so they could free his foot,another time was a worker was covering the small windows of the mortuary with plastic, when he looked into the morgue, saw what was going on and fainted, he left and never came back, and then it was my turn, just to the side where some arches, and me and another carpenter had to put some cladding on the ceiling, under the arches, great job, looking at all the nurses coming and going, ( got told off, because it was taking too long,) but towards the end of the corridor came the problem, it was a nice hot day and I'm on my little ladder moving along fixing the panels to the ceiling when my mate falls off ladder, I look at him he was out cold, ( thought prat), and that was the last thing I remember, I woke up in the general foremans office, next to my mate, asking if we where ok, I was told that some one in the hospital had poured some Ertha down the sink, and it came out just by where we where working, great place to work, the next and last time I was fitting some door frames to the bottom of a stairwell
next moment the floor started to fill up with water, ( a drain had become blocked) and so the water was coming out just where I was working, . now I knew where the drain was so I put my hand down to clear the sand and dirt in the bottom, when I felt a sharp pain, pulled my hand out and there sticking out my hand was a hypodermic syringe, so I went to the hospital ( next door) to get it removed, no problem till I told them where I had found it, ( it was an old one,) took my blood for tests, came back ok, but then just to make sure I had to have a tetanus jab, now come the fun, I only had on my tee shirt and jeans, ( no underpants,) and I had a young nurse ( first timer) had to give me the jab in my bum, we both had red faces, but later I had a red bum.....
..J2