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Hospital Heritage Displays
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Creating unique healthcare heritage displays that educate and excite

 
   
 

Scope

Mural Design
Research & Project Planning
Copywriting
Web & Touchscreen Design
Illustration & Photography

   We have been creating heritage murals for hospital environments for over 17 years now. You can read all about each new project by subscribing to our regular e-bulletins by clicking on the link, above left. The murals we create can include hundreds of photographs, illustrations, newspaper cuttings, plans, 3D objects, etc, along with detailed descriptive text to inform patients, visitors and staff about the history of their hospital, PCT or medical practice. Our skills include project planning, design, copywriting, illustration, photography and image restoration – a complete service through to print and installation specification, and management.
  
   
 

King's Mill Hospital

 

 

  

King’s Mill Hospital in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, was originally the first United States Army Hospital established in England during WWII. We designed 6 murals and 10 giant banners, to hang above the murals, to be displayed along the entire length of the new King’s Treatment Centre. The KTC ‘street’ will link the whole of the new hospital, and with 9m high walls and an opaque domed roof structure provide plenty of natural light for the dramatic large scale artwork.

 

  
 

 
 
 
   
 

Virtual Museum

  

To draw visitors to the podiums we designed floor graphics and eye-catching life-size images of people printed as transparent window displays to be viewed from inside and out.

 

We designed the appearance of the three touchscreen audio-video consoles and their content to work with the murals on the King’s Treatment Centre ‘street’; information is split into comparable colour coded sections. The interactive format is similar to a web site, though even more user-friendly in that information is accessed by just lightly ‘touching’ the screen. Each section leads through to a set of buttons that when touched brings up the history in the format of written text and either a slideshow, an audio slideshow with descriptive voiceover, a video, or a mixture of all three. These oral memories of the past engage the public in a dynamic way adding a different slant to the murals. This is an enjoyable and dramatic introduction to the history of the hospital, designed to engage all ages.

 

  
   
   
 

150th Anniversary First Cottage Hospital

  

Stained glass windows featuring the three Sisters who founded the First Cottage Hospital were discovered locked away in a dusty room. We conceived a mural that took on elements of the stained glass windows incorporating photos of them as the centrepiece of the finished mural. Using colours of bright oranges, yellows and reds we bestowed an overall glow of summer sunlight through glass. Details of cherubs, lion heads and wreaths were taken from the windows to enhance the design. Specially illustrated borders were created to imitate leaded stained glass panels, and we also commissioned a wooden frame with a metallic finish to blend with the leading.

 

  
   
   
 

North Ormesby Hospital

  

We created two murals to display in the new PCT that was built on the same site where the original North Ormesby Hospital once stood. The first is located in the entrance hall leading visitors to the bottom of the staircase. This depicts a dramatic explosion featuring the beginnings of the ironworks and the first cottage hospital. On the staircase are 3 banners, each one depicting a portrait of a person important to the hospital, shown in dramatic scale. These lead visitors up to the first floor where the second and biggest mural is located. The red and yellow used in the graphics reflect the colours of the ironworks.

 

  
   

 
   
  Beckenham Hospital   Beckenham Hospital, in Greater London, was a traditional red brick building, with high patterned wooden gables and decorative brickwork. This distinctive feature of the original Cottage Hospital was echoed in the frame design of our heritage displays to resemble the gables of the old hospital buildings; the words Beckenham Hospital picked out to look like dark grey bricks. The wooden apex on each panel was laser cut in three layers and hand painted to give extra visual depth and impact. There are four panels – separated chronologically and colour coded. Spaced along the hospitals’ main corridor the wooden frames had to have just enough ‘give’ to allow the panels to flex and fit flush to the corridors curving walls.  
   
   
 

North Riding Infirmary Mural

Located in the James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough		  

Over time the North Riding Infirmary became noted as specialists in the treatment of eye, ear, nose and throat and this is a key strand running through our mural design. Background images are big, bright and colourful, starting with an illustration of a silhouetted steelworker with a turbulent fiery background to illustrate the town's industrial heritage, for which the hospital was originally founded. The colours gradually merge through to purple, bisected half way along with a drainpipe, dated 1910, saved from the original building. Rather than being merely scanned, original historic plaques are fixed onto the mural. Photomontage is used to good effect - nurses from the past are cut-out and transposed to be seen to be standing amongst daffodils on a modern day photo of the Infirmary.