Family memories of St Andrew’s Hospital (1914-1981)
These family memories and the photographs have been provided by Sue Tibbenham and paint a vivid picture of work at the former St Andrew’s Mental
These family memories and the photographs have been provided by Sue Tibbenham and paint a vivid picture of work at the former St Andrew’s Mental
Rita worked at St Andrew’s Hospital, Thorpe St Andrew, in the 1980s and tells about daily life and the people she encountered during her time
Pearl talks to us about her life, from her nursing training, raising a family, WI committees and markets, short term foster caring and fundraising. I
Vera recalls her wartime work as a machinist and welder, and later, as an occupational therapy aide. A teenager in wartime London During the war
Geoff talks about his father Philip who was a pharmacist and optician in North Walsham, Norfolk, from the 1920s. His mother worked in the business
Audrey remembers her time as an evacuee during the Second World War and her working life as a nurse. I was born in Hebburn in
Margaret went to domestic science college after leaving school in 1957, but found her real vocation much later in life in homeopathy which she practiced
As a child during WWII Mary worked picking potatoes and then entered a special programme for training young nurses. She recounts the time when tuberculosis
Sue trained as a nurse in the 1960s and retired in 2009. During this time she worked in many different areas of nursing. She describes
Hazel trained as a nurse at 18 and had a career as staff nurse, sister, and later deputy theatre manager in Norfolk, Hull and Cambridge.