Royal Victoria Hospital Folkestone, Nurses Badge

A scarce early nurses badge for the Royal Victoria Hospital Folkestone.The small pendant badge was originally suspended from a brass safety pin type fixing but this is missing It takes the form of a blue enamelled shield with a crown, bearing RVHF .Named to the rear for Nurse JEB Crick 1927-1930. This appears to be Jessie Emmeline Back Crick, who is recorded in the Members roll of the College o...  read more

Code: 54735

Darenth & Stone Hospital Group,Darenth Park Hospital Enrolled Nurses Badge

A scarce Nurses badge from the Darenth Park Hospital,a major Learning Disibilities Hospital site in Dartford Kent,It dates to when it was part of the Darenth & Stone Hospital Group and looks to be from the 1960s.The hospital was one of the first to close under the Care in the Community policy and it finally shut in 1988.This heavy badge features the lamp of Learning on a green enamel background...  read more

Code: 54734

Gravesend & North Kent Hospital Enrolled Nurses Badge

A bronze and enamel Nurses badge for Gravesend & North Kent Hospital.The badge features the arms of Gravesend in enamel above the scroll with "Decus et Tutamen-An ornament and safeguard" Good condition,pin and clasp intact.Unmarked to rear Height 28mm  read more

Code: 54733

Barnet Group SEAN Training School,Silver gilt nurses badge

A superb silver gilt and enamel pendant badge from the Barnet Group State Enrolled Assistant Nurses Training School.The Maltese Cross is in a vibrant blue and has a central Lamp of Learning. The initials are for the different hospitals within the group. FMH is Finchley Memorial Hospital,St S is St Stephens and PB is Potters Bar.
In excellent condition with only. Minor surface scratches....  read more

Code: 54732

Maws Leather Nurses Chatelaine set with instruments, late 19th century

Another of these rare surviving pieces of Nursing equipment from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A Nurses chatelaine set of equipment in a leather case.These were widespread from the Mid Victorian era up until just after the First World War.Worn suspended from a nurses belt these would contain the nurses tools of her trade of the time. The contents could vary slightly but this is a fair...  read more

Code: 54731

Orthopaedic Nursing Certificate,SRN Badge

A popular seven sided enamelled nurses badge for the Orthopaedic Nursing Certificate.First issued in 1974 it features a twisted plane tree with it's trunk bound to a post, an allusion to a splinted fracture.The badge became obsolete in 1983 with the formation of the UKCC.Very Good condition but with only minor enamel scratches .Pin and catch intact .Makers marks for Thomas Fattorini Regent Street  read more

Code: 54730

The Andressey Hospital, Burton on Trent Nurses Badge

A base metal and enamel badge for the Andressey Hospital,Burton on Trent.Originally part of the Workhouse in Belvedere Road it became a long stay hospital after 1948.The figure appears to be St Andrew.
The Condition is good with only minor surface rubbing, pin and clasp good.Makers mark for Thomas Fattorini Ltd Regent Street Birmingham Height 38mm  read more

Code: 54729

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital, Nurses Badge

A nice clean badge for the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital London. Named for the woman to become the first woman doctor in the UK, the hospital was originally the New Hospital for Women, for many years staffed entirely by women.
The badge features a winged figure holding a snake ,the emblem of Medicine. Around the edge is the name of the hospital and at the bottom 1866,The year of fo...  read more

Code: 54728

The Mothers Hospital London,Midwives badge

Another badge for the Mothers Hospital Hackney London. Originally opened in 1883 by the Salvation Army as a maternity Hospital for poor women(often unmarried women who would not receive treatment in most Maternity homes).It reopened in 1912 on a site in Lower Clapton Road and finally closed in 1986 when services were transferred to the Homerton Hospital.
This badge features a red enamel ...  read more

Code: 54727