A POOLE care home resident enjoyed an enchanting birthday revisiting her favourite Dorset museum at Christmas time.
Patricia Purser, a resident at Colten Care specialist dementia home The Aldbury, regularly visited the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum in Bournemouth with her daughter Julia Doxot-Purser, before going into care.
Colten companion Cara Duroe arranged for Julia to meet up with her mother at the museum on the East Cliff, so they could look around together and have lunch in the café.
Patricia was joined on the trip to the Russell-Cotes by fellow The Aldbury residents Enid Connelly, Joan Perrin, Jean Hands, Abdul “Hobi” Sabih and Valerie Short.
All enjoyed exploring the museum, which was built by hoteliers Annie and Merton Russell-Cotes in 1901 as their home and which is filled with their extraordinary collection of British paintings and sculptures, as well as souvenirs from their travels around the world.
On their deaths, the couple had bequested the house and all its collections to the people of Bournemouth to enjoy forever.
