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Filmed on the Burnage Garden Village
An old film, part of it filmed on the Burnage garden village. Cover picture filmed outside on of the houses I lived in. 6 North Avenue. They also filmed on West place.
Farmers Arms 1950s.jpg
A view of a group of people outside the Farmer's Arms in the 1950s. Are you able to identify anybody in this picture?
Duchess of York Hospital - Old Operating Theatre
A photograph taken of the old operating theatre at the Duchess of York Hospital.
Myra Wood describes how the area was cleaned and maintained by the nurses.
Myra Wood describes how the area was cleaned and maintained by the nurses.
Duchess of York Hospital - Nursing Training
There are three clips in this playlist, in the first Myra describes her schooling, wanting to be a nurse aged 9, the letters she had to provide to apply, the interview and her three month trial at Briarwood.
In the second she talks about training…
In the second she talks about training…
Duchess of York Hospital - Life as a Nurse
In these four audio clips, Myra Wood first describes the duties of a nurse, including washing clothes, cleaning and cooking for the children, their responsibility for the hygiene on the ward, making the feeds for the babies and answering the…
Duchess of York Hospital - John Thaw's Father
Myra Wood describes the collection of breast-milk for the hospital, along with the processes followed at the hospital. One the ambulance drivers collecting the milk was Jack Thaw, father of John.
Duchess of York Hospital - Changes in Nursing
Myra Wood describes some of the changes in nursing; the support nurses used to receive, the numbers of children each nurse was responsible for, and caring for ten or more patients.
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St. Nicholas' Church - Photograph Album
A photograph album compiled and annotated by Bevan Taylor, showing images of St. Nicholas' Church from approximately 1928 - 1938. In an introduction, Bevan writes:This photograph album was found by the Rector (Rev. T. S. R. [Chow?]) January 1986 who…