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Outstanding
Nightingale School of Nursing Items II.
The Scrapbook of Miss B Tyler |
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Page 2 of the photograph
scrapbook which once belonged to Ms Barbara Tyler - Gina O - (an American correspondent)
kindly contributed photographs of the the original scapbook. The
book subsequently passed to Keith Haikes an American male nurse
who has maintained contact with SoN. Keith also purchased
Barbara Tylers' badges and other memorabilia from Gina O. On
with the photographs...
And here is the
Nightingale School of Nursing prayer - repeated, undoubtedly, by
every 'Nightingale' who trained there. Faithfully preserved by
Barbara Tyler in her scrapbook. Devotion to the Nightingale cause was clearly important to her, as can be seen
in the photographs below...
But the photographs below. There was no
explanation as to who Dame Monica Wills, Miss Baillie,
were. The latter, examining other photographs might well have
been a nurse - a sister or Matron perhaps -accompanying
Dame Wills. Sybil Thorndyke is perhaps fairly easy to place
(centre insert below) but who was Miss Clarke - the lady in the
wheelchair pictured right....?
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© Keith Haikes. |
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Dame Sybil Thorndike CH DBE |
Sybil Thorndike photographed in 1943 |
| Born |
Agnes Sybil Thorndike
(1882-10-24)24
October 1882
Gainsborough, Lincolnshire |
| Died |
9 June 1976(1976-06-09)
(aged 93)
London, England |
| Years active |
1904-1970 |
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Source
Wikipedia © (Commons) |
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© Keith Haikes. |
But where were the photographs taken,
and why? What made them significant enough to Barbara Tyler for them
to be included in her photograph albumn? There is at least a partial
answer at the top of the albumn pages below - though unfortunately
there is a little damage to the page.... The hand written title on
both seems to read "St Monica's home (or house) of Re...... April
1929 - June 193.... I personally believe St Monica's is in
England - but where? Why were the photographs retained?
And on to the start of the more
modern pictures in the photograph albumn - The Nightingale (nurses)
Home of 1932. It seems unlikely that anyone will remember these
ladies after so many (81) years and given that 'Chidell',
'Peach'.and 'Kaye' would have been at least 18 years old when the
photographs were taken they may no longer be with us. But if anyone
knows better, a relative perhaps, please do let us know.
We have
a start, and there are many photographs to go before we reach the
end of Barbara Tylers' photograph scrapbook, but by the time we do
we will have made another piece of nursing history available to all
who may have an interest. More pages next time.
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SECTION
1
Schools of Nursing.
SECTION 2
Hospital Photograph Collections.
Nursing and Hospital badges.
Backmanmal.
Irish Nursing Badges.
Eric
Wilkinson.
SECTION 3
Nursing Organizations
Statutory Bodies.
Nursing & Midwifery Council.
Professional/Trade Unions.
Royal College of Nursing.
SECTION 4
Badge Makers.
Thomas Fattorini.
Marple & Bradley
Brooke (Edinburg)
K&S (Edinburgh)
J.Gaunt (London)
D.J.Stewart
(Stirling Scotland)
Bladon (London)
Toye&Co (London)
SECTION 5
Collector links.
Websites
Nursing Badges.
Auction sites.
ebay.co.uk.
dnw.co.uk
Eg.Tip: Select 'search', 'View
Forthcoming Auctions' select 'Search or
Browse Lots to be Sold' and enter 'hospitals'
in the description field.
Nursing Collectables
petersnursingcllectables
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