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  3. Nottingham hospitals

    in Web Sites about old Nottingham

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    Thank you Jill,

    If you are interested have look at FB, Nottingham Nurses League and Nottingham Hospital's History also FB

    Hundreds of photographs, anecdotes etc

    Kind regards

    Tony

    PS one of our members who is 95 years old trained at NGH during WW2 and has given us a fascinating account of the Nottm blitz.

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  4. Nottingham hospitals

    in Web Sites about old Nottingham

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    Jill,

    Good research. You are quite correct. There was a ward named after Mr H at NGH. And what is nice to this day, two wards, Gervis Pearson and Hogarth have been relocated at the City Hospital so the memory lives on. I have hundreds of photographs of the former NGH ( I am the archivist to the Nottingham Nurses League) but have tried many many times to post photo's on here and despite very helpful comments from Mick T et al I still have no more idea that the man in the moon-too complicated.

    Out of interest the 'radium' that was used on patients used to be buried in the caves under the General Hospital. I went down to have a look once. Quite fascinating.

    Kind regards,

    Tony

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  7. Nottingham hospitals

    in Web Sites about old Nottingham

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    Jill, Interesting comments you have made and quite an experience. I worked at Nottingham General Hospital for nearly three years and knew the consultants and senior nursing staff on Gervis Pearson ward ( Oncology )-which I think you are referring to. I even worked on the ward. I never ever saw any experimenting with cytotoxic drugs. The Oncology ward was first class.

    The former ward is still there but not sure where you get the term Cavendish House from.

    Kind regards,

    Tony

  8. Favourite hymns

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

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    When we moved up to Derbyshire many years ago and attended church we noticed that the hymn book was PC . Onward Christian Soldiers, Stand Up stand Up for Jesus not in, ( tune was in but the words changed ) also in many hymns gender changed to obliterate any reference to 'him'. I joined the Parochial Church Council and as Church warden changed the hymn books back to the more traditional ones. Of course the C/E has tinkered with the liturgy for many years and it puts many people off.

    Happy memories of St Faiths Church in the Meadows and morning worship at TB school.

    Kind regards,

    Tony

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  10. Remembrance

    in General Chat about Nottingham

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    Michael,

    Thanks for posting. I planned our village Remembrance in our church for today and the first reader read this lovely moving poem. I did a very traditional Royal British Legion service with all the old traditional hymns, for example 'Onward Christian Soldiers' which is considered by many clergy to be non PC. We had over 100 in the congregation which is very good for a very small village. As a child and teenager I always went to the service on the Victoria Embankment-happy memories.

    I do hope you are well and your wife is progressing.

    Kind regards

    Tony

    Anthony Paine

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  11. Recognised as being from Nottingham

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

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    Many years ago in Florida picking up a hire car the chap said to me I see you are from Wilford Nottingham.( In an American accent)

    We had a chat and it transpired that he was from WB and went to Roland Green School. I asked him why he had lost his Nottingham accent and he replied it was to fit in with the locals as they could not understand him when he first came 2 years before!!

    Kind regards

    Tony

  16. Health service cuts!

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

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    Every time the news media show for example, Accident / Emergency Departments etc the staff both nursing and medical are all either sitting by a desk or staring at a computer. Where is the patient care these days.

    It never happened in my department - the patient came first. Also it is very difficult to know who is who. All staff wear theatre blue or greens so you have no more idea that the man in the moon who anyone is.

    Kind regards,

    Tony

  22. robin hoods stream

    in 'The Medders'

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    I was brought up in the Meadows and often in the summer months go down to Robin Hoods stream over the suspension bridge.

    We would but our fishing nets ( 6 pence each ) from Mrs Gills shop on the corner of Woolmer / Holgate road and catch tadpoles.

    I walked over there some years back and the whole area had changed.The fields by the stream was always called the 'buttercup fields'.

    Happy memories,

    Kind regards,

    Tony

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