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Health Memory Box

The Health Box is available to hire for up to three weeks at a time. £10 a week or £25 for three weeks.

Please contact [email protected] or call 01872 272205 for more information.

Object Contents:

  • Foundation wear in box
  • Nit comb
  • Glass premature baby feeding bottle
  • Pamphlets on feeding baby
  • 4 cigarette packets
  • Postcard of OXO advert
  • Postcard to promote drinking Guinness for health
  • Match box about drink
  • Carbolic tooth powder
  • Picture Post Magazine
  • Finger Sling
  • Eye bath
  • Tonic bottle
  • Eye patch
  • Vick bottle
  • X ray of a hip replacement
  • Condolence card
  • Drinking cup
  • Nurse’s apron
  • Beecham’s pill box
  • Blood pressure monitor kit
  • Poster for salts

Paper and other resources in box: 

  • Object prompt question cards
  • Memory Trunk booklet
  • Contents checklist
  • A plastic folder containing 5 A4 laminated images
  • Poster Enos fruit salt
  • Meal planning sheet for children x4
  • Dictionary for Mothers
  • Economical recipes