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Grove Fever Hospital File
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Nurse duty record books and index

Two-volume set of records for individual nurses (contained in hard-backed binders) with accompanying typed alphabetical index of names. Each record includes dates of entry/departure, details of time spent on duty in different sections (Medical, Surgical, 'Special', and Night Duty), dates of holidays and sick leave, and sometimes dates of examination passes. The 'Special' column includes secondments to other hospitals in the St George's group, including Tite Street (Victoria Hospital for Children) and the Grove Hospital.

The date range for the volumes is 1949-1957, but the first contains an inserted copy of a reference from 1981.

NV065 – Angela Haines

Ref no: NV065
Name: Angela Haines (née Speller)
Dates at St George's: 1954-1961

Digital image, copyright form, audio files and transcript of interview conducted by unidentified interviewer.

Image description:
PH716 – Angela Haines: Angela Haines in uniform during PTS [Preliminary Training School], c.1950s

NV098 – Susan Gollop

Ref no: NV098
Name: Susan Gollop
Dates at St George's: 1957-1963, 1965-1968, 1970-1976, 1981-1984

Copyright form, audio files and transcript of interview conducted by Chris Eberhardie

Grove Hospital

File labelled 'Fever and Tropical Fevers' containing the following:

  • correspondence between Grove Hospital sister tutor Margaret Thomas and the Hospital for Tropical Diseases (enclosing syllabus of lectures), Jun 1957
  • correspondence from the General Nursing Council, 1952-1957
  • transcripts and correspondence from former trainees, 1949-1953
  • receipts for books and stationery, 1940s-1950s
  • envelope labelled 'Fever Papers' containing GNC exam papers for fever nurses, 1955-1959
  • quarterly ward report forms and blank record of training form, 1940-1952
  • test paper from trainee nurse Grace Bradford, c.1940s

'A London Assistant Nurse Training School' series

Set of black and white photographs in a series entitled 'A London Assistant Nurse Training School', taken for the Ministry of Health in 1958 and issued by the Central Office of Information, with explanatory captions affixed to the reverse of each print. They include shots of pupil assistant nurses studying and interacting with patients.

The box these photographs are stored in is labelled 'Complete Set of Photographs: Grove Hospital 1958' (with a note stating that it was 'found during [a] clear out', 1997), indicating that they were taken at the Grove Hospital site, which was by 1958 the Tooting branch of St George's. The box also contains six photographs of an ambulance which, while also seemingly taken at Tooting, do not appear to belong to the 'Assistant Nurse' set.

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?

NV135 – Vera Millard

Ref no: NV135
Name: Vera Millard (née Arnold)
Dates at St George's: 1937-1941

Digital images, copyright form, audio files and transcript of interview conducted by Janet Bocking.

Image descriptions:
PH085 – Dunkirk survivors at the Grove, 1940;
PH086 – Vera Millard & colleagues at 14 Courtyard, 1940;
PH087 – Vera Millard at hospital, 1940;
PH088 – Christmas 1937 Rookie;
PH089 – Vera Millard outside A Block, Grove Hospital, 1940;
PH090 – Grove Hospital [with nurse in front];
PH749 – Vera Millard: Vera Millard in uniform half way through training at the Grove Fever Hospital, Tooting, c. 1930s-1940s

NV022 – Rachel McHugh

Ref no: NV022
Name: Rachel McHugh
Dates at St George's: 1955-1958

Digital images, copyright form, audio files and transcript of interview conducted by Angela Fothergill.

Image descriptions:
PH019 – Staff nurse William King ward, Hyde Park Corner
PH020 – The Grove3: Showing 'Frederick Hewitt' ward (upstairs) at the Grove
PH022 – Before the ball on King's Ward
PH024 – The Grove 1956a: Typical ward block at the Grove
PH026 – Cumberland House: Exterior of Cumberland House, Earl's Court. PTS School
PH028 – Possil House: Exterior of Possil House, Nurses' Home at Atkinson Morley Hospital in Wimbledon
PH029 – Christmas3: Christmas "on theatre". Breakfast in "North".
PH129 – Christmas Baby Decorated Crib 1960: St George's Hospital SW1 Christmas Crib 1960 Baby Sadgrove
PH130 – Copy of Christmas baby crib 1960: St George's Hospital SW1 Christmas Day 1960. Baby Paul Philip Sadgrove, 8lbs 13ozs Born 10.20am. S/M Rachel Mapperley (McHugh).

NV058 – Margaret Gardner

Ref no: NV058
Name: Margaret Gardner
Dates at St George's: 1949-1952, 1954-1955, 1957-1960

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

NVA162 – Daphne Chynoweth

Ref no: NVA161
Name: Daphne Chynoweth (née Kinch)
Dates at St George's: 1951-1955

Copyright form (and caveat form), audio files and transcript of interview conducted by Carol McCubbin in Adelaide, Australia