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Mary Frayling

Items donated by/relating to Mary Frayling (née Leaning), including:

  • postcard from assistant matron Grace Hickie, Dec 1945
  • Christmas cards (including from St George's Nurses' League), c.1960s-1980s
  • three St George's Day evensong service programmes, 1974-1980
  • Country Life article on 'Future of St George's Hospital' by Marcus Binney, 11 Nov 1976
  • correspondence from J. A. Leeves (Nurses' League treasurer) and Olive Walden Jones, 1979-1980
  • invitation and programmes for St George's 250th anniversary thanksgiving service, 1983
  • press cuttings about redevelopment of St George's Hyde Park Corner site as hotel, 1980s-1990s
  • photocopied extract from 'Home from Sea' by Joy Packer, nd
  • identification badge worn at reunion, nd

Mary Lee Abbott

Black and white and colour photographs featuring or from the papers of Mary Lee Abbott, matron of Atkinson Morley's Hospital (1956-1972). They include portraits/group shots of Lee Abbott and colleagues (including Muriel Powell, Olive Walden Jones, Eileen Rees, Grace Hickie and Wylie McKissock), images of hospital wards and buildings (at Atkinson Morley, Hyde Park Corner and Tooting), and official events (including the opening of St James' Wing and the Muriel Powell ward). Most of the photographs are annotated on the reverse with details of names and locations.

NV009 – Gwendoline Gardiner

Ref no: NV009
Name: Gwendoline Gardiner
Dates at St George's: 1942-1963

Digital image, copyright form and transcript of audio recording with Carol McCubbin as interviewer. No digitised audio recording present.

Image description:
PH754 – Miss Gwendoline Olive Gardiner OBE: Gardiner in uniform, c.1940s?

NV014 – Mary Frayling

Ref no: NV014
Name: Mary Frayling (née Leaning)
Dates at St George's: 1929-1940

Copyright form, audio files and transcript of interview conducted by Shirley Orbell.

NV037 – Margaret Harris

Ref no: NV037
Name: Margaret Harris (née West)
Dates at St George's: 1939-1943, 1946

Digital images, copyright form, audio files and transcript of interview conducted by Diana Hampton.

Image descriptions:
PH035 – Slough workhouse, c.1940s?
PH040 – Princess Marina 1939: Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, visiting St George's in 1939. Student nurse on right is Margaret Harris (interviewee). Two students selected to present Alexandra roses on Alexandra Rose Day.
PH138 – Margaret Harris 1941: Margaret Harris in uniform, 1941

NV038 – Betty Samuels

Ref no: NV038
Name: Betty Samuels
Dates at St George's: 1936-1961

Digital image, copyright form, audio files and transcript of interview conducted by Diana Hampton.

Image description:
PH041 – Betty Samuels picture: Group of nurses with male orderly and a porter, holding a variety of instruments. L-R, Top: Gwen Downton; ? female nurse; Len the Porter; ? female nurse; Norman (male nurse VD Dept); ? female nurse. Middle: Stella Smith; Mabel (orderly); ? female nurse. Bottom: ? female nurse; ? female nurse; ? state enrolled nurse

NV061 – Marie Parkinson

Ref No: NV061
Name: Marie Parkinson (neé Stoneham)
Dates at St. Georges: 1945-1950

Digital images [of scanned documents], copyright form, audio files and transcript of interview conducted by Averil Wingent.

Image descriptions:
DOC013 – Certificate01: Certificate awarded to Marie Stoneham (Parkinson) on successful completion of 3 years as a probationer. Signed by Muriel Powell among others.
DOC015 – Cover of GNC certificate: Cover of booklet containing Marie Stoneham's certificate of registration with the General Nursing Council (GNC) for England & Wales.
DOC016 – Certificate from GNC: Certificate of registration from GNC for Marie Stoneham, contained within a booklet.
DOC017 – Certificate (4th yr) from St George's: Certificate from St George's for Marie Stoneham after completion of her 4th year, or 1 year as a staff nurse.
DOC061 [series of 8 .tif files] – Syllabus of General Nursing

NV080 – Patricia Cobb

Ref no: NV080
Name: Patricia Cobb (née Davis)
Dates at St George's: 1936-1941

Copyright form, audio files and transcript of interview conducted by Jenny Beckingsale

Official visits and events

Black and white (and a few colour) photographs of official visits and events, including visits by Queen Elizabeth II to Hyde Park Corner in 1962 and to the opening of the Tooting site in 1980, visits by the Duchess of Kent and other royals, Christmas/formal dinners and parties (including copies of a set of photographs taken at Christmas on the maternity wards in 1949), the opening of a garden dedicated to Grace Hickie in 1987 (with photocopy of a letter about the event), etc.

Many of the photographs have press copyright stamps on the reverse.