New Nursing badges public gallery opening at schoolsofnursing.co.uk - update.
When our website was first envisaged (we actually opened November 2007) one of our esteemed members, ('eric') suggested that our photograph galleries, then private, could be made public. A little like Flicker I suppose. The problem was one of security. Leaving the original galleries open to all, including upload ability, meant just that. It was - not then at any rate - an option. But now we are well into making all our galleries both public and secure, thanks to benevolence of several members who have given permission for the use of their already uploaded photographs. We already have several hundred photographs - and available technical details being prepared for our first public gallery. An enormous task with many hours of work involved.
We still have over 3000 badges to process, and had hoped that we might have some online by Christmas. Unfortunately that was not to be. But our first gallery is well on the way to completion of phase 1 - the badge catalogue. It may take a just a little longer, but it is proceeding well. Watch this space!!
And another three new articles from Sarah Rogers,Will Burgess and Antony (Tony) Smith. The first another outstanding Nurse Badge set and Personal History - Amy Rosalie Scott, 1896-1967. The second a light-hearted look into a personal member post box; and the third an autobiography (our first) of recent history.
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The links
are all above - enjoy!
Ms Barbara Tyler -
St Thomas Hospital - Scrapbook Part 8.
The page 8 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" is now complete. We owe our thanks to - Gina O - who kindly gave us
permission to use her original photographs. It is a quite unique
collection and we were certainly very privileged to be able to reproduce
it
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 8 is here.
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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 4032 nursing/hospital badge photographs
encompassing all areas of the UK; 549 photographs
(buildings/people/ephemera); and 121 photographs (nurse uniforms), both
civilian and military. Will we achieve 5000 by the end of 2015? 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 4702 - 5000 now 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 (36) 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
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visitors are wide ranging - from 44 countries worldwide... Australia
& New Zealand and Canada are well represented in addition to the UK
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