Nurse Histories - Moving on...
Our current nurse-history - Evelyn Betham - who trained at Oldchurch Hospital, Romford, (photo's Rt Col) is now online! We have spent a considerable amount of time on this one, a lot on improving the photographs and a lot on trying to make certain that we have as much information as possible at the time of going to press. It Isn't the largest we have done, but every one is precious nursing history. We hope that you like it! Click Here.
Our next history - Anthony (Tony) Sisson is now on the work bench....
Our mail....
We continue to receive some very interesting mail. Some, such as locating lost transcripts of training, we simply cannot assist with. More often than not the requests related to pre-university conducted courses whose records were held by one of the GNC's. We have never been successful in locating even one - apart of course from the occasional historical item. We can only advise nurses who are asked to produce them, (usually for or by overseas organisations) to try the Nurses & Midwives Council. Here's the link.
But there is also a small amount of mail that is absolutely fascinating, and sometimes the sort of challenge that we enjoy - attempting to answer the impossible!
But a special mail came from DR Garden Cottage (Dick Robinson) telling us that Edith Appleton's War Diaries
(1914-18 WWI) have
now been published - Link - well done, a labour of
love I am sure. We have placed the full text of the email on the
forum (or enter 'Edith Appleton' in the forum search) - no log-in
needed. Plus there is an interesting short BBC news item and video
here. We do
of course have our own nurse histories, but the more we know about our nurse
history, the better....Back to the impossible! A recent correspondent has asked about taking a cadet nurse entrance at Walton Hospital (Liverpool) in 1970s, 'I don't think I had enough qualifications from leaving school at 15 with some GCSE'S, I know I had to sit an entrance exam, I think it was over so many days.. I must have gained some qualification to pass into the cadet school, can you let me know what the requirement at the time was, I may have A levels or the or more GCSE than I thought'... Well, we will give it ago and publish the result next time..
There have been, as usual (and for which we are grateful) a number of other queries. Some which we are still working on concerning badge identities' - or special requests to help replace lost badges. Plus requests which are proving much more difficult than the average, and longer standing requests which are absolutely resistant to our attempts to find the answer. But we will continue in all cases to seek - unless we are requested to stop. Please don't think that we have lost interest and gone away! And please don't be afraid to repeat a request - as long as you can accept that we eat and sleep, and yes, sometimes watch TV! One thing that we don't do is ask for money - simple fame will do nicely thank-you!!
Hopefully we have started 2012 in the best possible way. We certainly hope so. We try very hard to make nursing history as interesting as possible - hopefully we are succeeding.
Member Photograph Galleries.
Accumulating, but very slowly in the last quarter. The 'National'
galleries now contain 2607 nursing/hospital badge photographs encompassing
all areas of the UK; 348 photographs (buildings/people/ephemera); and 67
photographs of nurse uniforms, both civilian and military.
Have we made 3000 in 2011?....
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Well, we can most certainly say that for the first news page of 2012
our total count for the photograph galleries comes to 3,012! Not at all a
bad figure. Very many thanks to everyone concerned. But please - keep the
photograph contributions coming. 3500 by the end of the year? Perhaps 4000?
But the really big plus is that we have very few repeat photographs, and
those that we do have more often than not add to our knowledge. Remember,
the photograph is more important than the label. There were a number of
different badge variations produced for some hospitals.
There is still a long way to go if we are to itemize and describe everything
properly. This is especially the case because all the labels and
descriptions have to be added so that search engines, and thereby searchers,
can find them on the internet, but my, haven't we just come a very long way?
But please, don't break copyrights. If you are ever uncertain please ask.
Most copyright holders we have met so far have been only to keen to assist.
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