NF:	Back in 1969 £250 was a lot of money and that’s how much Patrick gave Muriel to set Kershaw’s up …. And I’m sure it was £250. It certainly wasn’t £500. And it certainly wasn’t in the thousands. It was £250 because I nearly fell off my chair when Muriel [Harris] told me.
JW:	What did she buy with that?
NF:	Well, this is where Fred Baxter [the hospital senior administrator] comes in. Fred Baxter had some old equipment in storage, not too old, usable, but we didn’t use it in main theatres … And, so, he had lights and a few trolleys, and patients’ trolleys, but Muriel was on something called the National Association of Theatre Nurses, and she was Chairperson of it. So all she had to do was get her feelers out and said, right, girls, I need a theatre table, and she bought one from Bolton. The theatre table came from Bolton …. And she had it serviced. Cracking. Just what we needed. And other bits and bobs used to surreptitiously find their way up to Kershaw’s. She got the joiner in to put the shelves in. But there was a small theatre at Kershaw’s anyway, and I think the GPs used it for minor ops, didn’t they?
JW:	I would imagine so, on occasion, but usually Kershaw’s was mainly used for respite care, wasn’t it, and people who were not seriously ill … bad chests and maybe just needed a bit of rest.
NF:	But there was a room there, all tiled, ready to go. All we needed is all the equipment. And that’s what’s happened.
JW:	I think she bought … the anaesthetic machine as well, didn’t she?
NF:	Yes. She bought the anaesthetic machine. Where that came from, I don’t know, but Muriel sorted all that out.
MJ:	So that was the setting up for £250? (= £3376 at current values)