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THIS STORY LAST UPDATED: 01 July 2004 1401 BST
Hospital photos bring back memories
PMH - lamps - Stokes/Allen A new exhibition of photographs at the Great Western Hospital shows pictures of its predecessor - the Princess Margaret Hospital - after the doors closed for the last time.

The pictures show wards and equipment, devoid of staff and patients, - but before the bulldozers moved in.

PMH - ward - Stokes/AllenThe images convey numerous emotions - particularly for anyone who worked at the hospital or who was a patient there.

Although most of pictures show empty wards, consulting rooms, waiting areas and boarded up windows, it's easy to see how each picture conveys a sense of nostalgia, and especially memories associated with triumph, despair, joy, sadness or just the mundane and every day aspects of a once busy NHS hospital.

Vincent Stokes, one the inspirations behind the exhibition at the Great Western Hospital, is Head of the Art School at Marlborough College.

He is a practising artist and exhibits his abstract paintings and mixed media work on a regular basis.

The GWH exhibition is Vincent's first photographic show.

Vincent has collaborated with David Allen on the project.

PMH - out patients - Stokes/AllenDavid works with a range of mechanical and hand-manipulated media, including digital and conventional photography.

The Gallery at the GWH is on the Ground Floor of the hospital, near the restaurant and is entered through the two sets of double doors leading from the Atrium.

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