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Leonora - Working Life: Job Description
Leonora talks about her job taking minutes at Council meetings, traveling all across north-west, with locations ranging from south Cheshire to Barrow in Furness. She would take 200 pages of shorthand each meeting recording all the sanitary…
Ted Morgan - Mother's Work
After Ted’s father died, he describes his mother’s income and her job cleaning for a local doctor at his surgery on Burnage Lane.
Dorothy Arnold - My First Job
Dorothy tells us about working as a clerk in Stockport during the second world war.
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 - 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.
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 - Mother and Baby Unit
An image of the first mother and baby unit at the Duchess of York Hospital, built by the Friends' Group.
In the additional sound clip, Myra describes which mothers would have used this room: those with very sick children and those whose children…
In the additional sound clip, Myra describes which mothers would have used this room: those with very sick children and those whose children…
Duchess of York Hospital - Bikers' Charity
Myra Wood describes the charitable work done by a group of bikers from Cheshire. The image was taken on Christmas Day, with Myra sat on the motorcycle in the centre.
Memories of the Duchess of York Hospital
Kath Thompson describes her time working as a Medical Records Officer/Secretary in the hospital from 1967 - 1970, her responsibilities in the position, the buildings which made up the hospital site, and taking her own daughter to have her tonsils…
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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…