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Nurse Mary Round, 1929 - 1932

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Reference Code: GBR/1919/AHRF 7/180

Scope and Contents

Frances Mary Round from Broadway, Worcestershire, who came to Addenbrooke’s to train as a nurse on 15 Dec 1928 aged 19.

Dates

  • Creation: 1929 - 1932

Biographical / Historical

Amongst a lot of books the depositor bought recently at auction in East Sussex was a copy of Addenbrooke's Hospital Student Nurses' Magazine 1932, inside were handwritten rhyming verses about nurses working on Griffiths Ward that might be of interest; Nurses Bailey, Round, Pickard, Norfolk, Porter, Yates and Dr Haynes. Also limericks about Tipperary Ward 1929; Nurses Alford, Bailey, Baumann, Green, Ison, Jones, King, Luck, Peck, Rogers, Round, Runnacles, Swann. There is also a small, handmade booklet describing work in theatre through rhyme and charming cartoons.

Mary Round's name is one that comes up in the inscriptions in several of the books - she regularly received religious children's books for good Sunday school attendance from the vicar of Buckland and Laverton in Gloucestershire circa 1916, making her the right age to be a young nurse in the late 1920s. The books may have came from a house clearance of a relative of hers who has recently died, probably in Eastbourne.

Language of Materials

English

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donated Julia Gooding 12 Dec 2016. see AHAS 2/6/3

Repository Details

Part of the Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Repository

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