Nurse Histories.
Our current nurse-history - Evelyn Betham - who trained at Oldchurch Hospital, is under current development and the one following, that of a male nurse - Tony Sisson - is now firmly on the drawing board. We still have several nurse histories on our list - most of serious interest, but gathering sufficient history has proven excessively difficult in all but a few cases.
Our mail since the last news page....
Has taken a rather interesting twist. There have of course been a number of requests for help replacing lost badges, and a small number seeking career validation details, which we simply cannot provide but do try to point enquirers in the right direction.
The is, however, an interesting twist in the tale! An increase, still small in number, of people seeking badge-related information. One respondent wants to find information on Ballamona Psychiatric Hospital, whose uncle died on the Isle of Man and who may have married the Matron. We are following that right now.
Yet another lady seeks information about her grandmother, who was placed in a convent by a Southport Nurse, and who remained there for 'many years'. Both nurse and daughter are named so there is a chance that a connection can be made, although at the present time the link looks a little fragile. That is to say, attempting to identify badges which have been found, rather than those that are missing. And there seems to be some quite rare items.
Another Nurse is seeking photographs of her nursing career at Stracathro Hospital from the early 1970's - but unfortunately the mail was rather abbreviated - whilst I am pessimistic I think that the best thing would be to join the forum - post a notice and look at the photographs - it is all free and you never know..
And so to nursing/hospital badges! ND has 'a Walsall General Hospital badge and from the marks on the back it is 1921 by Vaughton Birmingham and that is all I can find out. There is a name M J Stuart on the back and have attached picture. I would like to find out more as to why it was given to this person and any further info you may have would be great as it has got me intrigued..' It seems a very nice badge Nicola - and we don't seem to have one - we are looking further...
And finally (for now) A seriously star letter from Australia.
Hello, I was wondering if you could help me identify this badge.
(Click to view)t belonged to my great Aunt. who served during WW2 with the QAIMNSR. She has war medals in the collection and this one which I can't identify. She also has a Middlesex Nurse League badge so assume she was there for a time.
Thank you. kind regards Hilda
We are certainly going to try, it looks to be well worth it.....
Member Photograph Galleries.
Accumulating, but very slowly in the last quarter. The 'National'
galleries now contain 2517 nursing/hospital badge photographs encompassing
all areas of the UK; 342 photographs (buildings/people/ephemera); and 55
photographs of nurse uniforms, both civilian and military. 2914 photographs*. Have a quick
glimpse of the two latest badges. This time - a few silver hallmarks - one
very, (left) very old:-
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Perhaps Charles Horner (Chester). The
standard English lion passant gardant silver standard mark that you will
find on almost all English silver; the three wheatsheafs; and the date assay
mark the elaborate 'G'.
The galleries are becoming a
small on-line museum and are adding to our knowledge of nursing history quite
nicely, thanks to our contributors. It is available to anyone who cares to
register as a member - a very simple process. All is free...
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