New Nursing badge/epemera site...
Our site is still moving forward, although much of the work goes on off-line in the background, for example software updates. But perhaps the most exciting news is that we are now preparing something that one of our members ('eric') proposed when we first put the site on-line - that all of our gallery photographs be open to the public! Security (which remains in place) dictates that separate, non-up-loadable galleries needed to be created in order to achieve that. We are already well on the way, with the kind permission members of our private galleries who have contributed their photographs, which of course remain their property. But public accessibility will become a reality. Now just a few short months away. Patience is a requirement - we have over 4,421 photographs to process, starting with our nursing badges (3,784 and climbing). Each needs 10 basic operations to ready for publication - over 37,000 oprations on the nursing badges alone!! We are at 33% right now....
And another three new articles from Sarah Rogers. Saving up for a rainy day - Sarah now being extremely busy with her University course we kept a few articles in the cupboard! Muriel Mary Williams - Birmingham Children's Hospital; St Bartholomew's Hospital; Queen Elizabeth United Hospital Birmingham; Mary Richard - Mildmay Mission Hospital, Shoreditch; and 'A tale of three Nightingales' - (Catherine Ethel McMinn Graham; Mary Mildred Pickering; and Victoria Watson -Taylor).
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All very well worth a read... Early birds may well have already seen the links on the notice board, but if not, the links are above.
Ms Barbara Tyler -
St Thomas Hospital - Scrapbook Part 5.
The sixth part of the 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.
And also to Keith Haikes, an American nurse
who is the current owner of the book and who has provided further
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. 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... PART 6 is
here.
Email messages - Training Transcripts - Qualified Nurses.
In our experience it has
not been possible for nurses seeking transcripts from schools which no
longer exist to obtain copies. However, we can offer a couple of links
which may help in your search:-
Member Photograph Galleries.
Still accumulating, albeit now more slowly. The 'National'
galleries now contain 3784 nursing/hospital badge photographs encompassing
all areas of the UK; 532 photographs (buildings/people/ephemera); and
105 photographs of nurse uniforms, both civilian and military. Will we
achieve 4500 by the end of 2014?
It is possible, we continue to make
solid progress and will perhaps achieve the largest collection in the UK if
we are not already there....
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We are already at 4421 - 4500 seems a
definite possibility. We are well on the way and just maybe, we
will see another magic number very shortly, thanks to our many contributors.
We can now claim to have a mini photographic museum here at schoolsofnursing. Sincere, heartfelt, thanks...
But the photographs are not our be all/end all. Our online articles (23) are
gaining too, to say nothing of our nursing histories and news pages. There is
a great deal of research involved. Someone's time. Someone's money.
All given selflessly without thought of gain. What we have here are the
seeds of success.
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.
And if you want to join - welcome to the Forum and Member Galleries -
Register Here.
Please be aware, our site is rated on Google by Norton Internet Security
as being absolutely safe. We intend to keep it that way. You can help by
using a reasonable ID and your own genuine email address. Anything
that appears dubious may result in failed registration. Our site is
free to users. It is hosted by the largest ISP in Europe at commercial rates
- with highly professional back-up. Safe and secure!
Worldwide..
Certainly our visitors are wide ranging - from 44
countries worldwide... Australia & New Zealand and Canada are well represented
in addition to the UK and USA. There are also some more esoteric sounding
countries - China; Russia; Cayman Islands; Japan; Malaysia; plus Romania and
Spain.
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