Page 8 of the photograph
scrapbook which once belonged to Ms Barbara Tyler. Gina O - (an American correspondent)
- kindly contributed photographs of the original scrapbook. The
book subsequently passed to Keith Haikes an American male nurse
who has maintained contact with SoN. Keith also purchased
Barbara Tyler's badges and other memorabilia from Gina O. On
with the photographs...
Barbara Tyler was apparently, and not surprisingly, a devotee of
Florence Nightingale. Whatever, Barbara Tyler wanted the photographs in
her scrap book...
It is not surprising that
such devotion should arise from her position at the Nightingale
Hospital....
The left-hand photograph
below - St Thomas's Hospital, William Shepherd Memorial Dining
Hall . Rt - St Thomas's Hospital - Study Room. There was no
indication for whose use these rooms were intended 0 but it
seems fair to assume that nurses used them.
The Left-hand photo' below shows St Thoms's
Hospital - Ridell House sitting Room.... And below Rt - a 1958
aerial view of the hospital itself.... Whilst some of the
photographs may seem a little lacking in themselves, I for one
had never (and probably will never) seen inside these rooms
until now. And of course they must have evoked many personal
memories for Miss Tyler herself....
Above Rt - and the magnificent aerial view of
St Thomas's, the hospital must have held and evoked so many
memories for her.... And the photograph below - 'Her Majesty
Queen Elizabeth the Queen mother hands Miss Audrey Wilson her
silver medal, watched By Matron Miss Theodora Turner'. November
24, 1964...
What memories these pages must
have evoked, what memories recreated! But then perhaps
we need to remember how hard Miss Tyler must have worked
to have been in a position to have them..... More
photographs next time, but we are now close to the end of
the scrapbook - the next page may well be the last.....
*End of an era? Miss Barbara
Tyler certainly took her extremely well earned retirement,
but she quite obviously did not give up her contact with the
hospitals she had served with distinction, as can be
seen in yet more pages of her scrapbook. The book
itself, some memorabilia - including her badges, still
survive, albeit currently in America... More pages next
time!
**We may well be able to find out and
document considerably more about the hospitals involved and some of the
more senior nurses. Whatever every page more of Barbara Tyler's photograph scrapbook
published is adding another grain of knowledge, another piece of nursing history, available to all
who may have an interest. More pages next time...