Nurse Histories - Moving...
Our next history - Anthony (Tony) Sisson is next - special and progressing. Estimated to be still some months away from completion, but sometimes things move quite quickly. Fingers crossed but no promises right now.
And now - another two new articles from Sarah Rogers, the first about the St Bartholomew's Hospital Nurses League, and the second about using nurse badges to discover nurse histories and some possible pitfalls along the way:-
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Ms Barbara Tyler -
St Thomas Hospital - Scrapbook.
And here we are with
the start of the promised scrapbook collection of
Ms Barbara
Tyler - "Assistant Matron-in-Charge at St. Thomas' Hydestile (Godalming,
Surrey), when the hospital was moved out of London during the Blitz of
1941". We owe our thanks to - Gina O - who kindly gave us permission
to use her photographs.
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The scrapbook photographs are presented
exactly as we received them - the icons above are linked to our own pages
in a pseudo-reproduction -
leaving a little room for us to perhaps eventually fill in the detail
that the nurse creating the original, Ms Tyler, did not need since the
scrapbook - and the memories it contains, was for her own use. It is possible
that we will be able to learn much as we rebuild the book here. If we do
we will certainly be adding the detail to the scrapbook pages - adding
to our own knowledge of the history of St Thomas' hospital as we do so.
People, places, whatever we can reliably glean. There is a second
here.
As with any scrapbook, some of the photographs may well be meaningful
only to Ms Tyler, but some are of recognizable, sometimes public
figures. All are part of Barbara Tyler's story and are of historic
importance as the scrapbook of a past Assistant Matron at St Thomas's
Hospital. Especially this one! A glimpse of history. A treasure...
We are actively seeking information about any of the photographs in the
scrapbook published. The early photographs are perhaps beyond
research but the later ones may well be traceable or stir someone's
memory.
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webmaster@schoolsofnursing.co.uk ).
Our sincere thanks. To Ann Williams and Rita Gillen Brown, who
both trained at Charing Cross
Hospital, London in 1968 for the superb assistance with our current PTS
photograph and information (Rt Col below). And equally to Joy
Loveday from New Zealand for that magnificent photograph of the Charing
Cross Hospital badge. Magic!
Member Photograph Galleries.
Still accumulating, albeit now more slowly. The 'National'
galleries now contain 2799 nursing/hospital badge photographs encompassing
all areas of the UK; 353 photographs (buildings/people/ephemera); and
(still) 71
photographs of nurse uniforms, both civilian and military. Will we achieve 4000 by the end of 2013? Perhaps not, but we will have made
solid progress and perhaps achieve the largest collection in the UK by then
if not already....
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In the last news I inadvertently asked if
we would make 4000 by the end of 2012 - a clearly impossible task. But we do
start the new year - 2013 with a stunning 3218 items in what has become,
thanks to our many contributors, a mini (dare I say 'fledgling')
photographic museum here at schoolsofnursing. Sincere, heartfelt, thanks...
*There is still a terrific amount of cataloguing
to do because all the labels and
descriptions have to be added so that search engines, and thereby searchers
(you perhaps?),
can find our items on the internet. It seems an impossible task, but my, haven't we just come a very long way?
I think that we are going to need help....
But please, don't break copyrights when uploading/sending photographs. 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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