MOVING house is a
traumatic experience at
the best of times — and
with 40 elderly people,
average age over 80, it is
particularly difficult.

But staff and helpers at
The Close old people’s
home at Bridge have,
wi” ‘aw mishaps, moved
' idents from the

up ‘ Victorian work-
_ \_,
p. Je-built home, The
New Close, overlooking
the primary school.

And the matron, Mrs Di
Hadlow, said she was
pleasantly surprised it all
went so well. She was
grateful to the Bridge
Fish scheme volunteers
who ferried old people,

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