St James Nurses Home Liverpool,Silver District Nurses Badge

A rare silver and enamel badge for the St James Nurses Home Liverpool.This is in the context of a Home being a local base for early district nursing sisters, often belonging or. affiliated with the Queen Victorias Jubilee Institute for Nurses. Liverpool was the birthplace of Modern Community Nursing and a number of bases would be set up ,out of which the district nurses would serve their communities.
The simple badge has St James and Liverpool Nurses Home topped by a Liver bird.pin and clasp good. Silver hallmarks for WJD (William James Dingley) Birmingham 1924.Height 32mm

Code: 54070