Photographer, Paul Tucker, is responsible for a new exhibition in the Full Circle Exhibition Space at St. Mary’s Hospital this month.
He will be exhibiting a collection of shots documenting the working life of the laundry at the old Whitecroft hospital before it closed in 2004.
Paul, who we hear has worked for the local NHS as a maintenance craftsman for 15 years has a great passion for photography.
He comments: “Whilst searching through some old photographs recently I came across some photographs I captured whilst working at Whitecroft. The photographs were taken after Whitecroft Laundry had closed and I seized the opportunity to capture some of the equipment which was used before they were finally laid to rest.”
If you want to buy one of the limited edition prints, all proceeds will be going to the Barely Born Appeal for the new Neo-natal Intensive Care Unit at St. Mary’s.
First edition prints will be auctioned off to the highest bidder by going on-line at and all proceeds will go to the Appeal.
Commenting on the exhibition, Guy Eades, Director of Healing Arts at NHS Isle of Wight says: “The photographs are very evocative of both Whitecroft when it was the Island’s mental -illness hospital, the Laundry where the Island’s NHS Laundry was based, and those years in the second half of the 20th century when Whitecroft was a key part of the Island’s NHS. Paul Tucker’s limited edition prints of Whitecroft Laundry will soon come to be a rare glimpse of what life was like in those years of the Island’s NHS and what better way of contributing to build the Island’s future healthcare than bidding for or buying one of Paul’s superb photographs”.
If you would like to purchase one of the photographs on display or know more about the photography, contact Paul Tucker via his website
All images copyright Paul Tucker
