Holloway Sanatorium,Cased Mental Nurses silver medal

A nice Mental Nurses badge from the Holloway Sanatorium.This was located at St Anne's Heath,Virginia Waters,Surrey and opened in 1885 as a private mental hospital for the middle classes.Unlike the usual asylums it was ornately designed and sumptuously decorated.It finally closed in 1980 and the building now houses a luxury gated development.
The medal is one of two similar designs and this one consists of a silver maltese cross with ball finials to the eight points of the cross.At The centre of this is an enamelled shield bearing the crest of the Holloway family.This is on a laurel wreath with voided centre.It is topped by the hinged intertwined letters St AH for St Anne's Heath and is hung on an original divided blue and red silk ribbon which has a silver pin back suspension bar brooch which is marked for 1922-1927 along with two further bars with 1927-32 and 1932-37, I believe they denote years of service rather than training.The bar has it's pin.The medal is hallmarked for Fattorini & Sons,Birmingham 1918. The rear is engraved for E Dennison.The GNC registers show an Elsie Mary Dennison and an Ethel Harriet Dennison both having gained their MPA certificates at the Holloway Sanatorium, from 1921-24 and 1922-25 respectively.This badge therefore could relate to either one of the sisters

It comes in it's original velvet and silk lined wooden presentation case ,marked for Fattorini & Sons.Height 98mm

Code: 53914