SS/RH25/Gen1

General file

1967-1973

From: 1967 To: 1973

General file including: - design features of home and Farley Day Centre; - water supply from Luton Water Company; - opening of the home on 11 January 1968; - letters seeking employment; - hours per week needed to be worked by staff; - names and addresses of those applying for employment; - gift of two budgerigars to the home; - site location plan; - list of residents going on holiday to Caistor-on-Sea Holiday Camp [Norfolk]; - tender for supply of food; - visiting optician; - visit by Minister of Health, Kenneth Robinson, to Luton; - visiting chiropodist; - liaison with Fairfield Hospital; - centenarian at the home, with newspaper cutting and photograph; - theft from a resident; - complaint of ill-treatment by an attendant; - cost of provisions; - complaint about quantity and quality of food; - fire precautions; - possible re-designation of the home; - residents’ holiday to Great Yarmouth [Norfolk]; - bomb-scare at the home.

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Luton Farley Old People's Home, old people's homes, social & welfare provision older people, Farley Hill, LUTON, birthdays, water supply, Luton Water Company, budgerigars, maps, holidays, Caister-on-Sea, Great Yarmouth, food & drink, chiropodist, opticians, photographs, Fairfield Hospital, theft, fire precautions, local government finance