A PICTURE can stir up so many memories, and that is exactly what happened with this one.

The image is of the front of the former Wrexham and East Denbighshire War Memorial Hospital, pictured in 1989.

Located on Rhosddu Road in Wrexham, it closed as a hospital in 1986, with plans for its demolition.

After a campaign to save it, in 1996 the building was bought by Wrexham's Yale College, and renovated to become part of its campus in 1998, now part of Coleg Cambria.

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Shared to the Leader's Local Bygones Facebook group, members had plenty of times to share, from stays as patients or as staff...

Kenneth Page-Jones: "A lovely place to work, and very much a traditional hospital which gave many patients the feeling of safety and security.

"The board room was above the entrance door and on another floor there was Matron’s flat and very nice it was too.

"A sitting room, bathroom, kitchen and bedroom. I would not have minded living there."

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Jackie Southworth: "I started my nurse training here in 1975. My first ward was ward 5 ladies medical. I loved it but was very spooky at night especially walking back to the nursing home past the mortuary and out the back of the hospital."

Eve Galloway: "I worked on the switchboard there in the 70's Maud Matrons secretary, the great porters we used to have such fun with them. Happy days."

Angela Jones: "Loved every minute. It was a privilege to be a nurse."

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John Gareth Williams: "This is when hospitals were hospitals, run by Matrons who were in charge, who knew what was going on and sorted it out in the proper manner."

Allan Bathers: "Lovely old hospital, first-class service back then, when it was properly funded."

Carol Pickering: "Did my Duke of Edinburgh community service here in the early 60’s. Used to take the trolley around the wards selling sweets, toiletries and cigarettes!"

Dorcas A Jarvis: "Many happy years working here as a nurse."

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Susan Davies: "Wonderful memories of working in this hospital as part of my nurse training, 1966-1969."

Trisha Jones: "Gosh this takes me back, the times my mum took us through those doors with broken bones."

Garry Bolton: "Two stays in there, 1963 to have tonsils removed and 1967 with broken leg."

Audrey Wright: "I remember Betty, a lovely lady, nothing was too much trouble. She worked for a long time in casualty, where I worked."

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Sue Roberts: "Passed this and visited it many times, the overhang balcony at the front entrance were they used to sit convalescing patients."

Andy Jay: "I spent many a happy occasion in the A&E department around the back after motorcycle crashes. Great times."

Lynn Smith: "My consultant Dr Sissons was based there in the 80s-90s."

Nicola Southerton: "Attended art college there, 1996-1998. I think they might have been the first years as part of Yale College before it became Coleg Cambria."

For more nostalgia chat and photos, visit the Local Bygones group on Facebook.