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Atkinson Morley Hospital Education, medical
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St George's Nursing Collection

  • 406 NU
  • Collection
  • c.1830-2015

Collection charting the development of nursing education at St George's and related institutions from the 19th century to the present day.

The collection includes:

  • Student registers, training and examination records, prospectuses and syllabuses
  • Administrative records, including committee minutes, reports, rules and regulations
  • Publications and printed material including books, newsletters and journals
  • Papers, photographs and artefacts from St George’s Nurses’ League
  • Personal papers, memoirs and memorabilia from individual nurses, including papers of matron Dame Muriel Powell (c.1910s-­1970s)
  • Photographs, including student photographs, group photographs and personal photo albums
  • Artefacts and objects, including items of nurses' uniform, badges, medals, and medical instruments
  • ‘Nurses’ Voices’ oral history project: interviews with over 100 former St George’s nurses and midwives (and related documentation), recorded 2003-2008

From in-­job training at the hospital, nursing education was gradually formalised during the latter half of the 19th century. From 1882 onwards, probationer nurses were offered lectures by the medical school and hospital staff; these lectures developed into a more formal syllabus, becoming compulsory for probationers in the 1890s, and the first formal examinations were introduced in 1894. The archive charts the development of nursing education from the late 19th century to the 21st century, including important changes in the demographics of the nursing staff, such as the arrival of the Windrush generation.

The collection encompasses training of nurses at St George’s and related institutions: for instance, nursing training at Victoria Hospital for Children and Grove Hospital were merged with St George’s School of Nursing in the 1950s, leading to the establishment of a branch of the School of Nursing at Tooting, where St George’s Hospital and Medical School (later university) moved in the 1970s from Hyde Park Corner, central London.

St George's Hospital Medical School, London

NV001 – Joan Clague

Ref no: NV001
Name: Joan Clague
Dates at St George's: 1967-74

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

Image descriptions:
PH011/PH031 [two versions] – Ball at Grosvenor House, c.1968-1969: Clockwise from bottom facing camera: Mrs Hugh Anderson; Mr Richard Ellis (House Governor); Mrs Gordon Marsh; Mrs Betty Ellis; Unknown gentleman; Lady Monkton (member of Board of Governors); Dame Muriel Powell (Chief Nursing Officer); Mr Gordon Marsh (Deputy House Governor); Miss Joan Clague (Principal Nursing Officer - Service); Hospital Chaplin (Nash?); Wife of Chaplin; Wife of Board of Governors (Trade Union Rep); Board of Governors member (Trade Union Rep); Mr Hugh Anderson (Consultant surgeon, member of Nursing committee)
PH708 – Joan Clague Nov 1969: Studio photo of Joan Clague in uniform taken Nov 1969 when she was appointed to succeed Dame Muriel who advised her to have one taken as "it will come in useful".
PH709 – Joan Clague PTS Oct 1950 at Guy's: Official PTS photo Oct 1950 at Guy's. Joan Clague is standing first left on the second row.
PH710 – Joan Clague in grounds of PTS in Surrey, 1950: Joan Clague (right) in grounds of PTS in Surrey.
PH711 – Joan Clague Hampstead General Hospital in 50s: Joan Clague at Hampstead General Hospital taken in the mid 50s. The Hospital was pulled down when the new Royal Free was built. This is in the OPD/Casualty at Christmas and Joan is directly behind the Sister in charge on the first row wearing a Tubigauze.

PH712 – Joan Clague at Base Hospital Cairnes in 1960: Joan Clague at the Base Hospital in Cairnes, Australia. She is second left (wearing glasses). She was a £10 Pom and spent 3 years working round Australia.

NV011 – Jo Dunstone

Ref no: NV011
Name: Jo Dunstone
Dates at St George's: 1956-[1959?]

Digital images, copyright form and transcript of audio recording with Sue Hawkins as interviewer. No digitised audio recording present.

Image descriptions:
PH001 – Jo Dunstone 1956: Jo Dunstone as probationer taken in 1956. Notice Striped uniform of probationers.
PH002 – Jo Dunstone 1959: Jo Dunstone in her new staff nurse uniform in 1959. Notice: stripes gone, peterpan collar gone, straps to apron gone.
PH003 – Set of 56: Group photograph of Dunstone's PTS set in 1956

NV113 – Ann Salmon

Ref no: NV113
Name: Ann Salmon (née Dixon)
Dates at St George's: 1961-1964

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

Image descriptions:
PH007 – Dorcas House: In one of the bedrooms. Back Row, L-R: 1. Joy Leask 2. Sue Meade. Front row, L-R: 1. Marianne 2. Unknown 3. Pat Parsons 4. Unknown 5. Ann Salmon.
PH008 – Bronte House: Nurse's room at Bronte House. Lots of private possessions/clutter to ake it feel like home. Bed, easy chair, chest, dressing table.
PH010 – May 61 set: PTS (Preliminary Training School) set, May 1961;
PH718 – Ann Salmon: Ann Salmon in uniform with staff nurse's frilly cap, c. March 1964

NV123 – Vivien Jenkinson

Ref no: NV123
Name: Vivien Jenkinson
Dates at St George's: 1940-1964

Digital image, copyright form, audio files and transcript of interview conducted by Shirley Orbell.

Image description:
PH750 – Vivien Jenkinson: 2 Polyphotos of Vivien Jenkinson in outdoor and indoor uniform just after completing the probationary year and becoming a blue frock, Nov 1941

NV012 – Delia Norris

Ref no: NV012
Name: Delia Norris
Dates at St George's: 1958-1972 (mostly at Atkinson Morley)

Copyright form and transcript of audio recording with Shirley Orbell as interviewer. No digitised audio recording present.

NV015 – Edna Dodds

Ref no: NV015
Name: Edna Dodds (née Bate)
Dates at St George's: 1950-1964

Digital image, copyright form, audio files and transcript of interview conducted by Sue Hawkins.

Image description:
PH137 – Edna Dodds 1955: Edna Dodds (née Bate) in uniform in 1955

NV018 – Cecily Wade

Ref no: NV018
Name: Cecily Wade (née Collier)
Dates at St George's: 1951-1960

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

NV002 – Sue Cooper

Ref no: NV002
Name: Sue Cooper
Dates at St George's: 1975-2010 [initially at Atkinson Morley]

Copyright form and transcript of audio recording with Shirley Orbell as interviewer. No digitised audio recording present.

NV003 – Chris Eberhardie

Ref no: NV003
Name: Chris Eberhardie
Dates at St George's: 1965-1968, 1986-200?

Copyright form and transcript of audio recording with Shirley Orbell as interviewer. No digitised audio recording present.

NV033 – Pamela Aisbitt

Ref no: NV033
Name: Pamela Aisbitt (née Mountjoy)
Dates at St George's: 1951-1954, 1956-1968

Digital images, copyright form, audio files and transcript of interview conducted by Ann Salmon.

Image descriptions:
PH740 – Pam Aisbitt: Pamela Aisbitt as Sister Mountjoy, Kent ward, c.1960s
PH741 – Pam Aisbitt 1: Pamela Aisbitt in uniform as 1st year student nurse 'Mountjoy', 1952

NV034 – Jane Bakewell

Ref no: NV034
Name: Jane Bakewell
Dates at St George's: 1951-1959, 1964-1968, 1978-1980

Digital image, copyright form, audio files and transcript of interview conducted by Gillian Peace.

Image descriptions:
PH142 – Jane Bakewell: Jane Bakewell in uniform, 1951

NV005 – Shirley Orbell

Ref no: NV005
Name: Shirley Orbell
Dates at St George's: 1964-1973

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

Image description:
PH013 – Theatre Sister AMH: Shirley Orbell, theatre sister at Atkinson Morley's Hospital. Christmas, mid 1960s.

NV052 – Stephanie Kirby

Ref no: NV052
Name: Stephanie Kirby
Dates at St George's: 1976-1980

Digital images, copyright form, audio files and transcript of interview conducted by Shirley Orbell.

Image descriptions [note that several file names incorrectly identify Kirby as being in the photograph]:
PH043 – Grosvenor 79: Grosvenor Ward (Harris end), Hyde Park Corner, Summer 1979
PH044 – Festival Hall 76: Backstage before singing at the Festival Hall in Dec 1976
PH045 – Packing Doric House: Bags packed at Doric House prior to move from Tooting to Hyde Park Corner (Stage 1 to Stage 2)
PH046 – Sep76 set: September 1976 Set
PH047 – Chelsea Court Group76: Sept 1976 Chelsea court residence group, plus tutor David Lewin
PH096 – Stephanie Kirby with colleagues in rest room (1): 2 nurses & 2 doctors in rest room (no names)
PH097 – Stephanie Kirby colleagues in rest room at S (1): 2 doctors and one nurse in rest room (no names)
PH098 – Christmas 1979 St George's Hyde Park: Paul Hill, Debbie, Stephanie, Charlie and Alice, Christmas 1979
PH099 – Grosvenor Ward St George's Hyde Park Christm (1): Debbie and Alice, Grosvenor Ward, St Georges, Christmas Day 1979
PH100 – Grosvenor Ward St George's Hyde Park possib (1): Grosvenor Ward, c.1979
PH101 – View of Knightsbridge from St George's roof (1), Jan 1980
PH102 – Demo at St George's Hyde Park: Demonstration at Hyde Park to stop it being closed, c.1979
PH103 – Demo at St George's Hyde Park: Demonstration at Hyde Park to stop it being closed, c.1979
PH104 – Stephanie Kirby with patient on ward at St G (1): Patient in bed on ward with 2 nurses (no names), c.1979
PH105 – Ward at St George's Hyde Park possibly 1979: Nurse on ward, c.1979

NV053 – John Adams

Ref no: NV053
Name: John Adams
Dates at St George's: 1976-1978

Digital image, copyright form, audio files and transcript of interview conducted by Shirley Orbell.

Image description:
PH713 – John Adams: John Adams at St Francis Hospital, East Dulwich, 1984, at a leaving 'do'

NV055 – Valerie Gape

Ref no: NV055
Name: Valerie Gape (née Miles)
Dates at St George's: 1956-1965

Copyright form, audio files and transcript of interview conducted by Didge Brookings

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

NV063 – Mollie Wells

Ref No: NV063
Name: Mollie Wells
Dates at St. Georges: 1954-1969 [initially at Atkinson Morley]

Digital images, copyright form, audio files and transcript of interview conducted by Elaine Frew.

Image descriptions:
PH738 – Mollie Wells: Mollie Wells in St George's sister's uniform on a Cardiff visit to Exeter, Xmas 1958 (seconded to Tutor course while on practice teaching experience);
PH739 – Mollie Wells 2: St George's introductory course, Sept 1960. Tutors from L to R: Mollie Wells, Anne Chilman and Joan Nash

NV007 – Nancy Esterson

Ref no: NV007
Name: Nancy Esterton
Dates at St George's: 1975-2010 [initially at Atkinson Morley]

Copyright form and transcript of audio recording with Narindar Cooper as interviewer. No digitised audio recording present.

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