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World War One remembered

Lars Bevanger, Dunham Massey, UKMay 8, 2014

As part of the World War One centenary, an exhibition in the UK focuses on the unprecedented numbers of casualties which meant Britain's 7000 hospital beds soon became overrun by soldiers returning from the trenches. To help, many of the country's stately homes were turned into military hospitals. Lars Bevanger went to Dunham Massey house and was guided round the hospital by Katie Taylor.

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In 1917, for example, the Stamford family volunteered their Dunham Massey estate outside Manchester and turned it into the Stamford Military Hospital. The estate now belongs to the National Trust, a charity looking after the UK's many stately homes and gardens and it has just been turned back to look just like it did as a hospital one hundred years ago. Katie Taylor who took Lars Bevanger around the exhibition is the estate's House and Collections Manager.