ExtraCare Resident Stories

At 86 Beryl Poulson can still remember the wartime bombing raid that happened when she was a child.

When Barbara Webb was a child the doctor warned she may not live past the age of five. She was in hospital regularly during her early years. She had pneumonia, and when she was a year old she had polio which affected her arm and leg and meant she was in an iron lung for six months.

Pam lives with her husband Bryan and their white West Highland Terrier, Mickey. Pam tells how moving to Hughenden Gardens Village has given the pair a new lease of life.

Rosina Luxford, better known as Queenie, was one of the first to move into Hughenden Gardens Village. Queenie, in her nineties, tells how moving to Hughenden has helped her to deal with feelings of loneliness after her husband passed away.

Richard Nursey, 54, is the youngest resident at Hughenden Gardens Village. He moved to the village in July and so far is happy he moved.