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Hi. We are back from holiday. In recovery mode!  Will start work again in a couple of days....

Very Best,
Will.                                                                                                       

Hi Myke.

We are on holiday right now. Give me 24 and we will try to fix.

Will.

I'm having trouble viewing the gallery on my iPhone and some badges I uploaded several,weeks ago aren't being displayed.

Another on
E been on a few days & now at £95 with a few hours to go.

Done; the forum and the gallery have been updated to the latest versions -- it's changed the theme, so everything *looks* a bit different... but it should still behave largely the same.

Hi,

Adrian will be taking SoN offline shortly for a database update.  Apologies. Fingers crossed!!

Best.

Will.

Quote from: backman on March 27, 2023, 01:58:30 PM
Thanks Christopher,
Guilty re the Facebook share.A shame about the Eastern badges,this is one I get lots of requests to replace lost or damaged badges for.
Since the demise of the old schools of Nursing it is practically impossible for original recipients to replace a lost or stolen badge, other than on the secondary market.Even then it is hit and miss whether a badge will turn up and then market forces can drive up the price to often stupid amounts. I try to point people towards legitimate sources for replacements where possible, but have hundreds of requests from the many Schools of Nursing on my books, most of which will be very lucky to  ever see a result.
Is there a simple access point to view the different badges in your archive?
Good luck with the project and do let us know when the display is live, it may give me an excuse to visit your fine city again! Perhaps to combine a swap meet for Nursing badge devotees??

Hi backman,

Yes it's a shame as we do have a whole box of those, but because they are all engraved we would only be able to reunite them with their original owner due to data protection legislation. It's a long shot but I do welcome people to enquire. On the off-chance that their name is among the badges, I will happily be able to reunite them with their original badge.

We always welcome visitors to the archive and would love an opportunity to showcase some of the items from the collection in person. In person visits are done via booking only by contacting archives@ljmu.ac.uk with the dates you'd like to visit, and what items you'd like to see.

In terms of viewing the badges on our website, they are all digitised and available through the hierarchy for LJMUH/NUR, but I appreciate this might not be simple for people who aren't used to archival hierarchy structures. You can navigate through the hierarchy by clicking the + symbol on each series and subseries, to show what records are underneath it within the tree.
The links for all the individual badges we own are:

• St Helens and Knowsley School of Nursing badges LJMUH/NUR/2/2/1/1
• Warrington District School of Nursing badges LJMUH/NUR/3/1/1/4
• Liverpool Eastern District School of Nursing badges LJMUH/NUR/4/3/1/1
• Liverpool John Moores University School of Health badges LJMUH/NUR/5/1/1/3/2
• Central Mersey College of Health Care Studies badges LJMUH/NUR/6/1/3/5
• Whiston Hospital badges LJMUH/NUR/2/1/2/1
• Liverpool School of Nursing badge LJMUH/NUR/4/4/2/2/2
• Warrington Enrolled Nurse Training School badges LJMUH/NUR/3/2/1

Click on the reference number to access the page for the item, then at the end of each page is a photo of the badge. Please note we only have duplicates of those named in the first post in this thread, not all of these.

But there is a lot more in the collection than just badges! You can also search for information and things using our catalogue search function here.

The nursing timeline display will probably launch in the summer of 2023 in the Tithebarne building. The student exhibition finding nursing badges designed by students is a separate event, but I would be happy to share when that does launch. Any general opinions on designing nursing badges I can pass onto students would be appreciated, although of course I cannot share their unfinished work here.

Very best wishes,

Christopher.

Thanks Christopher,
Guilty re the Facebook share.A shame about the Eastern badges,this is one I get lots of requests to replace lost or damaged badges for.
Since the demise of the old schools of Nursing it is practically impossible for original recipients to replace a lost or stolen badge, other than on the secondary market.Even then it is hit and miss whether a badge will turn up and then market forces can drive up the price to often stupid amounts. I try to point people towards legitimate sources for replacements where possible, but have hundreds of requests from the many Schools of Nursing on my books, most of which will be very lucky to  ever see a result.
Is there a simple access point to view the different badges in your archive?
Good luck with the project and do let us know when the display is live, it may give me an excuse to visit your fine city again! Perhaps to combine a swap meet for Nursing badge devotees??

Thank you to whoever shared this to Facebook! We've had a couple more emails now since you did this.

Thank you also to everyone who has emailed. Hopefully we can reunite you with your badges soon.

Very unfortunately I have to add that the Liverpool Eastern District Badges are all engraved with a name on the reverse. This means that unless you are the named person (and can verify this), we cannot send out badges with another person's name, as this contravenes data protection legislation.

Very best wishes,

Christopher.

Quote from: wilfb on March 12, 2023, 08:37:39 PM
Yes. Certainly sir.

A superb start.  Are you able to enumerate all the Liverpool badges?

Of course - you have our full co-operation.  We have a large number of nursing badges and other memorabilia on the website for your perusal. The use of our photographs will need agreement from individual members where the badges etc are copyrighted, but I think that I can safely say this will be finding if requested.

Very Best.
Will
SoN Webmaster.

Hi Will,

I think you may have misunderstood. We are not asking to use images from your website!

Best wishes,

Christopher.