Schools of Nursing Forum

The Cheshire ones, where Parkside Hospital, Macclesfield, the Arrowe Park hospital badges some Birkenhead and Cheter/Wirral, I believe an ex-nurse tutor aquired quite a large number.

whilst I agree with all the previous comments re the LH SEN I just couldn't resist Its not named but still a nice piece and think I would have regreted it if I didn't get one via a nice seller as an off ebay deal. It is hallmarked silver and weighs in at 13.89g Hallmarks are for Birmingham Silver JRG ( ?? j r gaunt) and dated for 1983. Someone i know got the SRN version and they tell me its 13.62g Fattorini of Birmingham silver and dated 1995 Hope this helps

Yet more LH RN & EN badges gone on again, it's definitely Londongate!

and seeing bokojnr's Coventry reminds me of all those that appeared a few years ago

It's as if you had just bought Leonardo's Mona Lisa and then found out that he had produced 20 more! But does that detract from the one masterpiece in your own collection,that's the question?

Regarding badgegate incidents, if multiple badges do keep coming on the market, such as Broadgreen, LH, Liverpool United Hospitals etc, I will often buy one or two more to use as swaps, so it's not all bad.
Mike

it's not to so much as the quantity being sold but the decision you make about the badge. Its a badge you really want from an area that you like and you perhaps spend a little more than anticipated only to find a whole drawerful form the same seller. The Coventry is a example of this the seller has 3 different  badges ending at the same I made the choice of the Coventry and just missed out on his EBH - after that 25 coventry badges appeared for a fraction of what I paid and i didn't get the only EBH he had  Since then the EBH has been on ebay (from a different seller) and went for more than I could afford. I still love the Coventry and did as Myk suggested got some more and did some swapping but am a little peeved at missing out on the EBH As for my London SEN - its a wee Leanardo gem ::)

Guess what, another LH gone on tonight at £14.99.  I wonder how many he really has because I'm sure he's told me he hasn't anymore after his last one he put on!
Mike

This is vexing a few people, why not get in touch with the hospital and ask for information about them being sold off. A FOI should do it.

Mick

Hi, I doubt that would work- see my article about the badges, it mentions the changes to the schools of nursing and mergers with Barts.there have been so many changes over the past twenty years. The SON moved from one site to another about 1 year ago, when we saw badges at City there were not spares like that- may be some were sold off before that.

I agree Liz,if my own experiences of requesting information are anything to go by,a FOI will probably just demonstrate that in most University Nursing departments the information just wasn't recorded.The rush from Schools of Nursing to University Faculties of Health means that much of the history that preceded them was just abandoned along with badges,records and photos.A few individuals may have salvaged some of these but as older Tutors retired,much of the information was just not retained.I was lucky that some 20 years ago I managed to keep a couple of the older Southampton badges from one of the tutors there but this is becoming less and less likely with the passage of time.There are occassionally finds such as the London Cache of items but once gone thats it!

Is the direct descendent the Royal London Hospital?

Mick

yes, but all nurse training is at city uni .Barts and the london merged and as did there training... the article shows the badge changes. barts site (league0 also shows most of the badges, not sure it has the latest city (on the gallery)

If anyone hasn't seen the website it is well worth checking out.It is nice to see such an active Nurses League and it is a great shame many other hospitals haven't managed to do similar:http://www.rlhleagueofnurses.org.uk/index.html

Sorry- I meant the Barts league site is good for the badges:http://bartsleagueofnurses.org/photo-gallery
(not sure that ours RLH )has even an EN badge on it)... but does have some linksto here!