It was both a working class utopia in the heart of Peckham and a unique experiment to demonstrate a totally holistic approach to health. The Pioneer Health Centre soon became known across the country and around the world as the Peckham Experiment. Did it live up to its name and pioneer a new approach to health in the pre-NHS age? Or were its wide-reaching lessons and […]
Monthly Archives: September 2012
Can the origins of Britain’s National Health Service be traced to a small town in the Welsh valleys? The first of a two-part piece on health provision in the UK before the NHS looks at whether the Tredegar medical aid scheme was a victim of its own success. Britain’s National Health Service was introduced as part of the country’s wartime commitment to its people. The National […]
We are going to ‘Tredegarise’ you
The Second World War was a conflict that comprehensively defied the restrictions of land and sea. Planes screamed over borders and delivered parachuting troops deep into foreign territory. Bombers and, in the war’s final months, missiles wrought front line destruction on distant enemy cities. The air was not merely the conduit for armed forces and weapons. With the new technology of radio fully harnessed by all […]
Poisoning the airwaves
If something happens very rarely you might say it occurs only once in a blue moon. But if you find yourself in a certain corner of northern England, someone might say such an event happens once in a Preston Guild. Lancashire folk have a certain way with words, but in this case they are being literal. The Preston Guild only happens once every 20 years and […]