The Memories of Nurse Paulo Anacleto Paulo Anacleto is a nurse at Sobral Cid Hospital. His childhood memories are all connected to the staff housing estate of the Rovisco Pais Colony Hospital, where he lived until the age of 21. His father, Manuel de Oliveira Anacleto, born in Mealhada in 1931, worked as a nurse …
Dulcínia, ligações e memórias Dulcínia Paiva shared with us the memories of someone who, although she never worked at the Rovisco Pais Colony Hospital (HCRP), maintained a strong connection to the institution. Her father, her husband, and her godfather all worked at the HCRP. The family home and the small shop they owned in Tocha …
Olívia, the childcare supervisor Olívia Neto began working at the Preventorium of the Rovisco Pais Colony Hospital in 1970 as a supervisor (vigilante). She recalled moments from the eleven years she worked with the children. She remembers her first day very clearly: “I came on a Friday, on 1 October 1970, at 10 a.m. My …
Fátima: Life Path and Research Fátima Pedrosa Alves was born on 22 January 1962 at the Rovisco Pais Colony Hospital (HCRP). She was the second of five children born to António and Maria, both patients interned at the HCRP. She had little contact with her parents, and what she came to know about them resulted …
Natália and the Crèche Natália Dias Costa was born in 1937 in Lemede, in the municipality of Cantanhede. She was the daughter of Manuel, a tavern keeper and barber, and Maria de Jesus, and had four sisters and two brothers. She told us that she began working at a very young age in agriculture, on …
Idília, the Seamstress Maria Idília began working at the Rovisco Pais Colony Hospital (HCRP) in 1970. Her father, Manuel Almeida, had already been working at the Hospital for 25 years as a tailor, and it was he who insisted that she should come to work there as well: “I was 19 years old and it …
Albano Pais de Sousa, almost 50 years at the service of the Hospital Albano Fernando Lopes Pais de Sousa was born in 1938 and started working as a 1st class clerk at the Hospital Colónia Rovisco Pais in 1957. At the beginning of the interview, he confided that “Rovisco Pais was my life and the …
Américo, the electrician at the Hospital Américo Carvalheiro was born in 1932, in a small house close to the place where the Arcada hotel and the Hospital are now located. He has known the Fonte Quente farm since he was a kid, when he used to play and swim with his colleagues in the lagoon. …
Carlos, “baby Jesus” Carlos Cruz’s childhood is closely linked to the Hospital Colónia Rovisco Pais (HCRP) in Tocha. The memories of that place – “an authentic garden”, as he calls it, accompanied him all his life and traveled with him when at the age of 19 he went to live in Marinha Grande. Throughout his …
Mr. Maia, baker Manuel Maia de Jesus was from Tocha and when he was a kid he remembers the construction of the Hospital and the ox carts loaded with materials.In 1961 he started working at the Hospital’s bakery, as a baker’s assistant. He had been in the profession for a few years now. He had …
