Oxfordshire Area Health Authority Ambulance Service,Cap badge

An enamelled cap badge for the Oxfordshire Ambulance Service,Good overall condition with fixing lugs intact.Unmarked to rear.Height 42mm  read more

Code: 52416

Nightingale School of Nursing,Silver Nurses Buckle

An Extremely rare silver nurses belt buckle and clasp from St Thomas's Hospital,Nightingale School of Nursing.In it's original cardboard box from Spencer & Co, the buckle and clasp appear never to have been worn.The rectangular design bears the central components of the arms of the hospital, namely a shield with a cross, the upper quarter bearing a sword for the emblem of London.This is topped ...  read more

Code: 52412

The Hospital for Sick Children,Great Ormond Street London,Silver Nurses Badge and GNC Badge

A pair of badges awarded to the same nurse for Registered Sick Children's Nursing at Great Ormond Street Hospital.The first is a chrome and enamel '" Hygeia" badge from the General Nursing Council for England & Wales.In good condition this is named to F M Reed RSCN 6987 26.11.48. This is Francis Mabel Reed who is shown on the register as having trained at GOSH from 1945 to 1948.
The sec...  read more

Code: 52410

The Hospital For Sick Children London,Great Ormond Street, Nurses Belt Buckle

A scarce Base metal and enamel Two piece buckle and clasp for the Hospital for Sick Children,Great Ormond Street,London.The circular design features a greek cross upon which an enamel badge of the hospital nurses badge is imposed.Condition is very good to face and with belt loop and clasp intact.Height 64mm

Note : I am also listing the matching GNC and GOSH Badges separately and...  read more

Code: 52409

Nightingale School of Nursing,St Thomas' Hospital,Silver Nurses Badge

Another beautiful silver and enamel nurses badge from the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing of St Thomas' Hospital.Demand for these remains high and I'm afraid the price reflects this demand and my purchase cost.
For more information on the history of the design see;http://thenightingalefellowship.org.uk/the-nightingale-badge/
The enamelling on this badge is very good but has...  read more

Code: 52408

Medico Psycholocial Association Silver prize medal, Birmingham Asylums

A pair of badges awarded to to the same nurse for Mental Nurse training at the Birmingham Asylums during the First World War.The first is the standard bronze MPA pendant badge which features a Maltese cross with the goddess Psyche to the centre.The arms bear the words For Proficiency in Mental Nursing.Minor surface rubbing pin and clasp intact.Named to the rear for Katherine H Kendrick.Height 5...  read more

Code: 52403

West Essex Health Authority ,Silver Nurses badge (Green)

A silver and enamel badge for the West Essex Health Authority Nurse training course.Established in 1982 it superseded Harlow Health District and included Honey Lane Hospital and the War Memorial Hospital at Waltham Abbey,Ongar War Memorial,Epping Cottage and St Margaret's Hospital Epping.
Issued in three different colour variations for the different branches of training,this is the Green...  read more

Code: 52398

Star and Garter Home Richmond, cased VAD nurses medal

This opened in 1916 by the British Red Cross Society as a home for disabled ex servicemen at the Star and Garter Hotel in Richmond.This lovely medal takes the form of a bronze angel with outspread wings supporting a wounded figure.An enamelled red cross can be seen to the top. Condition is good.The rear is engraved for Miss Enid Callard December 1931.The BRCS records show her as service as a VA...  read more

Code: 52394

Leather Nurses Chatelaine set with equipment

Another rare piece of, what was once, a basic piece of Nursing equipment, mainly a Nurses chatelaine set of equipment in a leather case.They were widespread from the Mid Victorian era up until just after the First World War.Worn suspended from a nurses belt these would contain the nurses tools of her trade of the time. The contents could vary slightly but this is a fairly typical example.
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Code: 52392

The Nightingale Training School For Nurses,St Thomas' Hospital,Prospectus Booklet.

A Nursing prospectus booklet for the famous Nightingale School of Nursing at St Thomas' hospital, dating from the 1950s.
For many years potential candidates for Nurse training would receive such a booklet from each School of Nursing they might consider when looking to train.These surviving booklets give an insight into the facilities and training on offer.
This booklet measuring 2...  read more

Code: 52391