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Training records for nurses who entered the Grove Hospital in 1936, arranged alphabetically by surname

Group of three registers, the second and third of which are labelled 'Class Room (Pupils) Register / Kingston County Hospital' (a label which also seems to apply to the first, though it is unlabelled) containing records of pupil nurse (? - it is unclear if the pupil/student distinction is being made here) training, with alphabetical indexes at the front. Each record includes the following information: name, age, date of entry/leaving, dates and results of examinations, remarks, and number of lectures attended (broken down by subject).

The date ranges of the volumes are as follows:

1936-1941
1941-1947
1947-1952 [some later items of correspondence have been inserted]

Training records for nurses who entered the Grove Hospital in 1937, arranged alphabetically by surname

Papers refer to Back; Frankau; Blomfield; Anderson; Churchfield; Baines; and other individuals

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

• framed print (plus unframed copy) of engraving of St George's in 1745, originally engraved c.1870 and reissued on the 150th anniversary of the hospital, c.1983
• framed watercolour by Joyce M. Parker of St George's, Tooting (the old Grove Hospital building), 1981
• framed pencil drawing by Mary Gliddon of Muriel Powell studying as a nursing student, 1937 [unclear if it was drawn from observation at this date or retrospectively imagined]
• framed painting by B. [?] Hibbert entitled 'Night Nurse', depicting a nurse at a desk in a ward (inspired by memories of Bristol Royal Infirmary, according to an inscription on the reverse), Jul 1987
• two ink cartoons by 'Elliott' and one page of ink cartoons by Walter West depicting hospital patients and staff, c.1955
• signed print (rolled in poster tube) of 'St George's Then & Now', an ink/watercolour painting by Audrey Hammond, commissioned by the Nurses' League in 1993, with accompanying explanatory leaflet

Transcribed 21st century records book covering students who registered between 1937-1949 (student numbers 7023-7398). Some entries provide details of student qualifications, working life, dates of birth and death, and other information.

Documents relating to Joan Nash's education and employment, including:

• school reports (Nonsuch County School for Girls, Surrey), 1938-1942
• certificates from St George's Hospital, General Nursing Council, Central Midwives Board, West Middlesex and Chiswick Hospitals, and University of London, 1950-1960
• correspondence with St George's Hospital (including Muriel Powell and Eileen Rees), South West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board, Department of Health, World Health Organization and others, 1951-1986
• University of London exam paper and pass list for the sister-tutor's diploma, 1960
• CVs, job application forms/descriptions and accompanying notes, 1960s-1970s
• copy of St George's Hospital 'General Rules for Student Nurse', nd
• cover letter (card) from Peter Newman Brooks, 9 Jan 2006

Three hardback lecture notebooks, including:

• St George's Hospital notebook containing notes on 'Dr Headley's Lectures', c.1938
• Battersea Polytechnic notebook containing 'Science, practical' course notes, 1940
• Battersea Polytechnic notebook containing physics course notes, 1941

One metal-backed binder and two additional loose sets (fastened with metal fasteners) of records of staff midwives/midwifery sisters (with the occasional pupil midwife/state enrolled nurse mixed in) who worked at the Weir Maternity Hospital (or, for some of the earlier records, St James' Hospital), arranged alphabetically by surname.

Each record includes the following information: name, home/non-resident address, next of kin, age/date of birth, religion, appointment, date of entry/leaving, state registration number, qualifications (divided into training schools and previous appointments), dates of leave/sick leave, health record, and personal report. Additional leave forms have been attached to some of the records.

Two London County Council training record forms for nurses who started their training at St Luke's but subsequently transferred to the Grove Hospital and St James' Hospital respectively. The records include the following information: name, date of birth, parents'/guardian's address, education, dates of training and leaving, lecture attendance, examination marks, ward reports, and conduct marks. The earlier of the two forms also encloses an LCC probationer application form to Fulham Hospital and additional quarterly ward report forms.

Event programmes and miscellaneous ephemera, including:

• programmes for St George's Day services and other events (including Edward Jenner bicentenary celebrations), 1996-2004
• programme for 'Nurses Make a Difference to Health Care Delivery' conference organised by the League, 1994
• information leaflets, c.1990s-2000s
• reunion lunch invitations, 1992-1993
• Lanesborough Hotel brochure, c.1999
• press cuttings relating to nursing, including obituary of Marjorie Jackson, 2002-2003
• training certificates of Joan Joice Harris with cover letter from her son Roger Marshall and accompanying press cutting, 1938-2004

Papers refer to Frankau; Taylor; Blomfield; Churchfield; and other individuals

Training records for nurses who entered the Grove Hospital in 1938, arranged alphabetically by surname

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

Training records for nurses who entered the Grove Hospital in 1939, arranged alphabetically by surname

Additional St George's/nursing memorabilia, including:

• General Nursing Council Syllabus of Subjects for Examination, 1939
• illustrated colour map of Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park by J. P. Sayer for the Strand Magazine, c.1948
• typescript of 'Marie Tempest Roundabout' (comic verse), 17 Sep 1949
• typescript of an essay/article on 'the nature of man as a social and thinking animal', c.1950s
• St George's Hospital Strathspey and Reel Society information booklet, 1951
• St George's information sheet on student nurses' 'Daily Time-table, Holidays and Rates of Pay', c.1940s-1950s
• reproduction of a colour print of Hyde Park Corner c.1850, mounted on paper, c.1950s
• press cutting about Muriel Powell, 1955
• St George's Hospital Prospectus of the School of Nursing, 1956-1957

Papers donated by/relating to Jacqueline Pearce (née Burnett), including:

• St George's Hospital certificate of training, Dec 1939
• St George's Hospital certificate of 1 year service as staff nurse, May 1940
• General Nursing Council certificate of admission to the register and retention fee receipts (in envelope), with accompanying letter, 1940-1950
• Nursing Mirror Nurses' Diary for the year 1942, while Pearce was based at St Helier Hospital, containing notes and entries only for the first week of January [expressing reservations about 'a job I hate at place that I loathe and detest'], 1941-1942
• wedding photograph taken in Colombo, Sri Lanka, 9 Dec 1944, annotated with a list of names on the reverse by Pearce's husband

Papers refer to Frankau; Evans; Churchfield; Peers; Ives; Doggart; and other individuals

Registers of student nurses at the Battersea and Bolingbroke Hospitals Combined Training School (in practice most of them seem to have been based at Bolingbroke: Battersea is sometimes listed as an affiliation), with alphabetical indexes at the front. The record for each student includes the following information: name, age, date of birth, nationality, religion, education, date of entry/commencement of training, date of signing, affiliated hospital, certificates held, previous nursing experience, sickness, sick leave, lectures attended, examinations, date of leaving, and remarks. Later items of correspondence relating to references/transcripts have been inserted, sometimes including original student record cards.

The date ranges for the volumes are as follows:

1939-1953 [missing cover; first page is detached]
1953-1958 [misleadingly labelled 'St James' on cover, presumably because it was later transferred to St James' Hospital]
1958-1961 ['Bolingbroke Students']
1961-1965 ['Bolingbroke Students']
1965-1967

Registers of student nurse records, including the following information: name, index number, age/date of birth, date of entry/leaving, address, education, religion, previous experience, number of lectures attended, and exam results.

The date ranges of the volumes are as follows:

Nov 1939 – Jan 1956 [includes later items of correspondence relating to references]
Jan 1956 – Oct 1960 [incorrectly labelled with start date of 1953]
Feb 1961 – Jan 1965 [incorrectly labelled with end date of 1963]

Set of 10 boards (and one piece of card) with patient observation charts – recording temperature, pulse rate, and respiration – affixed to one or both sides. Six of the boards have additional labels stating the disease of the patient (e.g. scarlet fever, smallpox, typhoid, miliary tuberculosis, etc.), indicating that they were used to illustrate characteristic temperature patterns.

Registers relating to nursing (and in some cases midwifery) examinations at Kingston. The registers take a variety of formats: some record only lists of names with pass or failure; some include details of individual marks; and some include lists of exam questions or copies of printed exam papers.

The date ranges (and titles) of the volumes are as follows:

Apr 1940 – Jun 1960 ['Training of Midwives – Part II / General Nursing Council Examination Results']
Jun 1955 – May 1977 ['Record of State Examinations']
Apr 1964 – Apr 1977 ['Pupils' Question Book' – includes handwritten questions and taped-in exam paper]
Aug 1968 – Sep 1989 ['Record of Hospital Examinations' – includes taped-in results lists]
Jan 1970 – Jun 1977
Nov 1975 – Aug 1979 ['Pupil Hospital Assessments']
Aug 1976 – Feb 1988 [includes inserted exam papers]
Jun 1981 – Aug 1991 [contents of ring binder labelled 'Examination / Assess Results']
Aug 1986 – Mar 1991 ['Written examination for student nurses in general nursing conducted by the Kingston & Esher College of Nursing']

Two tubes (glass enclosed in cardboard) of sterilised surgical sutures/ligatures, labelled as follows:

• Merson's Sterilized Surgical Suture (Horsehair), manufactured by G. F. Merson, Edinburgh and supplied by Down Bros., London [date of manufacture given as 8 Sep 1943]
• Armour's Sterilised Surgical Suture (Silk Worm Gut, Medium) [also labelled 'Ligature' on outer packaging], manufactured by Armour Pharmaceutical Company, Eastbourne

Training records for nurses who entered the Grove Hospital in 1940, arranged alphabetically by surname

Four binders of student nurse training records, separated with alphabetical dividers. The records vary in form: those in the first volume include only name, age, dates of ward experience and leave, and dates of exam passes and any prizes; those in the remaining volumes also include address, index number, next of kin, religion, and remarks (but omit the ward experience details).

The date ranges of the volumes are as follows:

1940-1960 [note that this binder is in a larger format than the other three]
1940-1969 [though label on spine incorrectly states 'to Dec 1961']
1961-1970
1970-1974