Blackburn, Nurses Home 1899
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Photo ref:
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This is the nurses' home at the local hospital. Nurses were unmarried and there were strict regulations governing their behaviour, both on and off duty. Gentlemen callers were not allowed beyond the foyer, under any circumstances whatsoever. Some nurses' homes even had resort to wrapping barbed wire around drainpipes.
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I have just found out a relative of mine lived at Cromwell Lodge can anybody tell me something about this place and where in Blackburn it was.
Many thanks Jill Page
At some point during the Second World War I was sent to what was called a convalescent home in Blackburn. I was a bed wetter and was sent there by the people that took me in as an evacuee. They never told my mother that I was being moved, and the shock to her was awful. Fortunately she rescued me as soon as there was a lull in the bombing of London. I am wondering if it was the old nurses' home or the Infirmary. ...see more
I started my SRN training in 1973. In those days the Nurses' Home still exsisted but the view was obscured by the more recent additional buildings to the Infirmary, which included the Education Centre. However the Home was still well used. Some nurses still 'lived in' in this building but we all used the building too. We all had lockers in a room in the basement there. When we went on duty we kept our ...see more
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