My nursing career and other distractions (1949-2012)
After training as a nurse, June became an Army wife. She went on to have a varied career in health – nursing, phlebotomy and health
After training as a nurse, June became an Army wife. She went on to have a varied career in health – nursing, phlebotomy and health
Jim began working in a bank in central London, then served as a bombardier and sergeant major in his national service on Salisbury Plain. He
After leaving school, Gillian worked at Norwich Union for 10 years and saw the introduction of equal pay for women as well as changes in
Joyce started off working for the Telephone Manager in Norwich and afterwards worked for British Telecom, including on the telephone directory. In later life she
Sid talks about his life on farms working with horses before, during and after the Second World War. He missed the life with them when
Sylvia left school in 1944, and worked with children for a while before training at the age of 18, as a nurse, and later on
Bernard had a varied career based around the Stalham, Hickling area. He was a Bevin Boy, worked in the fishing industry out of Great Yarmouth,
Rita grew up in a theatrical boarding house helping her mum, and joined the Land Army doing farm work during the war and afterwards. When
Peter was a Bevin Boy who stayed on working in the mines and ended up as a publican. I was fourteen years old when I
After training as an SRN at Westminster Hospital, L became a health visitor's
assistant in Hampstead. She moved to Fakenham with her husband and brought up
her family – she worked with Playgroups while the children were small. Then she
became area as school health advisor and later worked with children with
behaviour problems. What a contrast between affluent Hampstead and school
nursing in 1960s rural Norfolk.