Nottingham Queen's Medical Centre,ENB 148 Neurosciences training course badge
A scarce nurses badge for an English National Board Course,148 Neuorosciences,at the Queen's Medical Centre Nottingham. Prior to the creation of the UKCC in 1982,the ENB was responsible for a range of professional development courses including this one.The badge is likely to date to the 1970s or early 1980s.The badge design features a wedge Pattee cross in red enamel.Centred on this is a circle... read more
Wolverhampton & Midland Counties Eye Infirmary,Nurses Badge
An enamel badge for the Wolverhampton & Midland Counties Eye Infirmary.These were first awarded in 1966 and I believe this example dates to the 1980s.The design features symbols relevant to those areas served by the hospital,namely the Staffordshire Knot,Fruit tree of Worcestershire,Leopards head from the arms of Walsall and Padlock to commemorate the locksmith industry of Staffordshire.
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Basingstoke District Hospital,Silver Nurses Badge
A silver and enamel Nurses badge from the Basingstoke District Hospital.The central design features a red Hampshire rose with Laurel wreath in which is a white bird resembling a stork.(I am unsure of the significance of this?)The hospital title is i silver on a red enamel band to the edge.Good overall condition but with some surface wear.Pin and clasp good.Silver hallmarks for the Birmingham Ba... read more
Chichester & Graylingwell School Of Nursing,GNC Pair
A silver and enamel badge from the Chichester & Graylingwell School of Nursing.The badge features a central roundel with a design of the Market Cross in Chichester.This is imposed upon a Maltese cross in purple.I understand that the same badge was awarded for the different branches of Training and this includes RMN training
In excellent overall condition with enamel,pin,clasp and safety ... read more
New Cross Hospital London,Nurses Badge
A base metal and enamel Nurses badge from New Cross General Hospital at Deptford.This was originally a Fever Hospital run by the Metropolitan Asylum Board(MAB) and was known as the South Eastern Hospital.It became an Emergency Medical Service Hospital in World War 2 but was closed and used only as Nurses accommodation for Guy's Hospital until it reopened in 1953.It was largely run as an annexe ... read more
Chester District School of Nursing,Midwifery Badge
An enamelled nurses badge for the Chester District School of Nursing.The design features the wheatsheaf in gold,taken from the coat of arms of the City of Chester.The red background denotes Midwifery training ,as opposed to a blue background for General Nurse training.This design was first issued in the mid 1970s. Good condition with pin,clasp and safety roller catch all good.Makers mark for Th... read more
Northampton General Hospital School of Nursing,Silver Nurses badge
A silver and enamel nurses badge from Northampton General Hospital School of Nursing from the 1960s.It consists of an enamelled shield in a voided centre,showing the red rose of Northamptonshire and the Lamp and open book of Learning.Around the rim,in silver on red enamel is Northampton General Hospital School of Nursing( this design of badge was issued in several different colour ways but I am... read more
Great Yarmouth & Waveney Health Authority,Enrolled Nurses Badge
A bronze Nurses badge from the Great Yarmouth & Waveney Health Authority.This version was awarded for Enrolled Nurses training during the early 1990s.The badge features a Trawler associated with the Fishing heritage of the area.In very good condition,pin,clasp and safety roller catch all in good order.Makers mark for Thomas Fattorini Regent Street Birmingham.Height 28mm read more
London County Council,St James' Hospital,Silver Nurses badge
Another of the Nurses badges awarded by the London Council Council between 1930 and 1948 for over 100 Hospitals after they took over responsibility for running what had been poor Law Institutions,It features a Blue enamel cross with a silver centre upon which is the crest for the LCC.This one is for St James' Hospital,Balham,which eventually closed in 1985.
Condition is Very Good with o... read more
Cased Badge of the Nightingale School of Nursing St Thomas Hospital
I am listing here,yet another exquisite example of one of the most sought after Nursing Badges ever issued,that of the Nightingale School of Nursing at St Thomas' Hospital.
This silver badge ,in it's own original leather presentation case,is in an excellent restored condition having been fully re-enameled to a high standard.It is named to Hilda M Day with the year 1927
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