West Wilts Hospital Management Committee Nurses Badge

An enamelled badge which despite its considerable enamel damage is still rare.It is for the West Wilts Hospitals Management committee which included Trowbridge and District,St John's & St George's Trowbridge and Westbury,Warminster,Sambourne, Beckford, Melksham and Bradford upon Avon Hospitals.I believe it dates to the 1950s or 60s.It's face features several designs from the local area but it ...  read more

Code: 50071

Royal Victoria Hospital Belfast,silver Nurses badge and SCM Badge

A pair of badges awarded to the same nurse.
An ever popular silver and enamel nurses badge from the Royal Victoria Hospital Belfast.An oval badge with a central design showing a lit nurses lamp of learning with stylised beams of light on a green enamel background.The title is around the edge with an imperial crown at the top and shamrocks at the other three quarters.In excellent conditio...  read more

Code: 54039

Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital,Early nurses badge

A brass and enamel pendant nurses badge from the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital in Exeter.It consists of a red Geneva cross on a round brass medal with the initials RDEH in white enamel to the four quarters.To the centre of the cross is a royal crown.This is suspended from a safety pin type brooch.In very good condition.The rear is engraved for A.M.Sandle 1895-1900.  read more

Code: 51992

Charing Cross Hospital,Nurses Badge (pre 1973)

Still one of the most distinctive of the London Hospitals Nurses badges is the medal of the Charing Cross Hospital,worn at the throat on its ribbon.This is a clean example consisting of a Brass eight pointed Maltese cross with balls to the tips,all present and Fleur de Lys voided at the corners.It is named to the rear Joyce Dewhurst ( This lady appears to be Joyce Dewhurst having trained at Ch...  read more

Code: 53816

Brighton Municipal Hospital,Nurses Badge

A base metal and enamel nurses badge for Brighton Municipal Hospital.Originally the Workhouse Infirmary it was renamed The Municipal hospital in 1935 until it became the General Hospital in 1948.This badge dates to that period.It features a shield bearing the arms of Brighton above the motto In Deo Fidemus- We Trust in God. Good condition with pin and clasp good.Makers mark for Thomas Fattorini...  read more

Code: 53443

Mansfield Victoria & Forest SE Nurse Training School,Silver Enrolled Nurses Badge

A Silver and enamel badge for the State Enrolled Nurse Training School of the Mansfield Victoria & Forest Hospitals.In very good condition with pin and clasp intact.Makers Mark Toye Kenning & Spencer.Hallmark for 1971.Height 28mm  read more

Code: 54038

The Middlesex Hospital,Silver Sister's Long service badge

A Silver pendant badge for the Middlesex Hospital,now sadly closed down.I understand that this was awarded for 5 years service as a Sister.The design portrays the hospital itself above a laurel wreathe imposed upon a cross.This is suspended from an art deco styled suspension bar.In good overall condition but with some wear to the plated finish, pin and safety catch good .Marked to the rear Joyc...  read more

Code: 54037

Bradford Royal Infirmary,Brass Nurses Badge

A brass and enamel badge for the Bradford Royal Infirmary The rounded cross has a central circle which bears the coat of arms of Bradford surrounds by a blue enamel band on which is Bradford Royal Infirmary .The arms of the cross bear a boars head to the top and three hunting horns to the rest.the enamel is good although some discolouration to the metal.Pin is absent.Unnamed ,makers mark for Th...  read more

Code: 54036

The Hospital For Sick Children London Great Ormond Street ,silver Nurses Badge

An increasingly scarce silver and enamel nurses badge of the Hospital for Sick Children,Great Ormond Street,London. A very ornate badge which is in good condition with minor surface scratching and slight enamel loss at the edge by the ND of London . Pin has been professionally replaced ,clasp and safety roller catch in good order .Hallmarked for Birmingham, Fattorini and Son with year letter fo...  read more

Code: 54035

Bolton Royal Infirmary,Silver Nurses Badge

A small silver and enamel nurses badge for the Bolton Royal Infirmary.The oval badge bears the shield from Boltons coat of arms(prior to 1974) above which is a red rose of Lancashire. In very good condition with pin and clasp good.Silver hallmarks for JF Birmingham 1932.Height 28mm  read more

Code: 54034