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Event programmes

Programmes for events relating to St George's and other hospitals, including:

  • catalogue for centenary Cézanne [also spelt Cezanne] exhibition at Rosenberg & Helft gallery in aid of the rebuilding fund of St George's Hospital, 1939
  • programme for St George's Day evensong service, 23 Apr 1951
  • programme for Croydon General Hospital nurses' prize giving, 26 Jun 1958
  • programme for Kingston Hospital School of Nursing presentation of prizes, 15 May 1959
  • programme for Kingston Hospital School of Nursing presentation of prizes, 20 May 1960
  • programme for St George's District School of Nursing presentation of badges and certificates, 12 Apr 1979
  • programme for centenary celebration of Bolingbroke Hospital (containing a short history of the hospital), 1980
  • menu for dinner to mark the centenary of Mayday Hospital, Croydon (and opening of the surgical wing), 18 May 1985
  • programme for St George's District School of Nursing presentation of badges and certificates, 10 May 1989

Jean Meadows photo album

Album labelled 'Career' containing photographs featuring or relating to St George's nurse Jean Meadows (née Veronica Jean Cruise), including scenes of nurses, wards, Christmas festivities, royal visits, etc. Also includes press cuttings about visits by two different Duchesses of Kent (Princess Marina and Katharine) and an inserted certificate of completion of the St George's tuberculosis nursing course (1957).

Official visits and events

Black and white photographs of official visits and events at St James' Hospital, including the opening of the new outpatients department by the Earl of Onslow (1953), Christmas pantomimes/shows (including one called 'Topical Cinderella'), leaving parties for Miss Louden and Miss Savoy, mayoral visits, a beauty contest, etc. Other named figures include Dr Frankenberg, Sister Lester, Mrs Robinson, and Miss Bishop.

Note that more photographs of the opening of the outpatients department can be found in album NU/6/1/1/2.

Prizegiving ceremonies

Black and white (and a few colour) photographs of prizegiving ceremonies (and presentations of certificates) at St James' Hospital, including shots of nurses collecting prizes, speeches being made, and groups of attendees dressed up for the occasion. Also includes discrete booklet and 'Nursing Times Photographs' wallet containing photos for the 1961 and 1963 prizegivings respectively.

Tennis/swimming photographs

Black and white photographs (with press copyright stamps on the reverse) of nurses playing tennis or holding tennis trophies (including one shot featuring matron Muriel Powell). Also includes one photograph of a nurses' swimming team in a pool.

Work scenes and hospital buildings

Black and white (and a few colour) photographs of nurses and other hospital staff working and studying in wards, classrooms, etc., as well as hospital buildings and equipment, including canteens, physiotherapy rooms, the chapel (including an image of the Saint James stained glass window and a textual description of the Nurses' Window), a waiting room, operating theatres, etc. Also includes a photo of nurses being evacuated (c.1940) with accompanying correspondence from the donor and Heather Bond.

Photographs

Photographs collected by or donated to the Nurses' League, including:

  • 2 albums of black and white group photographs of trainee nurse cohorts, annotated with surnames, 1952-1977
  • envelope of colour photographs 'taken during the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the new [Tooting] hospital', with names written on the reverse, c.1963-1964
  • colour photographs of a Nurses' League reunion party, Nov 1987
  • album of colour photographs of meetings of the re-established Nurses' League, annotated with names, 1989-1992 [oversize]
  • two black and white photographs of staff nurse Gaynor Arney and senior outpatients nurse Wendy Miller lighting a candle to mark the relaunch of the Nurses' League, c.1989
  • glassine bag labelled 'From Sue Hawkins 17.2.04' containing colour photographs of an event to commemorate Atkinson Morley Hospital, c.2003
  • Kodak wallet of colour photographs (with Picture CD) of an event to commemorate Muriel Powell held in Cinderford, Gloucestershire, 2004
  • 2 yellow slide boxes containing colour slides of Atkinson Morley Hospital buildings, wards and grounds, 1974
  • blue slide box containing black and white and colour slides of nurses, hospital wards [at Atkinson Morley?], vehicles, buildings, maps, etc., c.1970s-1980s [but including reproductions of images c.1940s]
  • set of negatives labelled 'Nurses' League Meeting, Autumn 1990'
  • miscellaneous personal photographs of Sheilagh Hall, Lulu Cassells and Grace Brooks (née Brinsley), and a Nursing Times photograph of nurses with tennis rackets, c.1950s-2013

Personal photographs

Miscellaneous personal/portrait photographs of people connected to St George's, including Sister Chapman, Sister Bryant ('looking at Coronation Procession from Drummond Ward'), and Dame Helen Cargill, as well as personal photographs of a 1953 rugby tour (presumably the St George's team?) and a visit of St George's students to Battersea Park Fun Fair.

Coronation Day souvenirs

Souvenirs relating to the Coronation of Elizabeth II, including:

  • souvenir programme for the Coronation Day [2 Jun 1953] produced by the Dorchester hotel, 1953
  • ticket stating that Mr D. Watney 'has to get to employment at St George's Hospital' on Coronation Day, 1953
  • St George's Hospital duty pass [for Mr D. Watney] for Coronation Day, 1953
  • ticket for Coronation Ball at the Dorchester, 6 Nov 1953
  • signed menu for St George's Hospital Medical School supper dance at the Dorchester, 6 Nov 1953

Prizegiving ceremonies

Black and white and colour photographs (and some colour contact sheets) of prizegiving ceremonies, featuring nurses receiving prizes/certificates/medals from various dignitaries, including the Duchess of Kent. Most of the photographs have press copyright stamps on the reverse.

'In memoriam' file

Items retained by Nash in an 'In memoriam' file, including:

  • service programmes for funerals (of Philip Constable, Beatrice Dodwell, Brenda Mee, Muriel Powell, and Eileen Skellern) and commemorative events (St George's Day; Florence Nightingale Commemoration Day), 1978-1986
  • correspondence from Muriel Powell, Joan Clague and Phyllis Friend, 1966-1980
  • press cuttings of obituaries (of Powell and Dame Catherine Hall [the latter not originally in this folder, but stored loose]), book reviews, news items (about Margaret Scott Wright), etc., c.1976-1996
  • programme for 'Opening of St George's Hospital and Medical School by Her Majesty The Queen', 6 Nov 1980
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