Western Infirmary Glasgow School of Nursing Silver Nurses Badge
A large silver and enamel badge from the Glasgow Western Infirmary School of Nursing.Featuring a shield topped by the Lamp of Learning over a Scottish thistle.The shield is halved with the left side bearing the Rod of Asclepius a V I and a thistle.,The right side bears the arms of Glasgow.Generally good condition with majority of enamel intact(some loss to pattern on rim but this seems common w... read more
Glasgow Royal Infirmary & Associated Hospitals School of Nursing,Silver Enrolled Nurses Badge and Scottish Silver Enrolled Nurses Badge
A pair of badges awarded to the same Scottish Enrolled Nurse.The first is a silver and enamel badge from the Glasgow Royal Infirmary & Associated Hospitals School of Nursing.It depicts the snake of healing intertwined with a Thistle with the motto Auspice Caelo-By the Favour of Heaven,which features on the wall of the Infirmary on Castle Street.This version with green enamel was awarded for Enr... read more
Royal Infirmary Edinburgh School of Nursing, silver nurses badge
A silver and enamel Nurses badge from the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary SoN, in a good but damaged condition as pictured, it is one of two badges I am listing, both awarded to two sisters who undertook their training at the Astley Ainslie Institute which was affiliated with the RIE for training purposes.
It features the emblem of the Royal Infirmary,the Pelican feeding it's young with it's o... read more
Royal Infirmary Edinburgh School Of Nursing, Silver Nurses Badge
A silver and enamel Nurses badge from the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary SoN, in a rather battered condition as pictured, it is one of two badges I am listing, both awarded to two sisters who undertook their training at the Astley Ainslie Institute which was affiliated with the RIE for training purposes.
It features the emblem of the Royal Infirmary,the Pelican feeding it's young with it's ow... read more
General Nursing Council for England & Wales.Registered Nurse Mental Subnormality badge
A chrome and enamel badge from the GNC from the 1970s,The standard Hygeia badge is in excellent condition with pin and clasp good.It is numbered to the rear RNMS 11686 for Registered Nurse Mental Subnormality. It is unnamed as all badges were from the mid 1970s until the closure of the registers in 1983. read more
Royal Air Force Medical Branch,Original Cap Badge
A World War 2 period bronze metal cap badge for the Medical Branch of the Royal Air Force.The design features the Ankh, the Egyptian symbol of life, wrapped with a medical serpent, within a laurel wreath surmounted by a Kings Crown.Below this is a scroll with the latin motto; Nec Aspera Terrent- Nor do Difficulties Deter. Condition is good with minimal wear.Slider fixing to rear.Height 46mm read more
Hoylake West Kirby and District Nurseries and Babies Hospital, brass badge
A scarce brass and enamel badge for the Hoylake West Kirby & District Nurseries and Babies Hospital.This one is in blue enamel on brass and bears the image of the Mariners Beacon at West Kirby,the lighthouse at Hoylake and a shipping navigation beacon at Crosby.The establishment was set up as a convalescent home for the sick and debilitated children of Liverpool,who might benefit from the fres... read more
Hoylake West Kirby and District Nurseries and Babies Hospital, silver badge
A scarce silver and enamel badge for the Hoylake West Kirby & District Nurseries and Babies Hospital.This one is in green enamel and bears the image of the Mariners Beacon at West Kirby,the lighthouse at Hoylake and a shipping navigation beacon at Crosby.The establishment was set up as a convalescent home for the sick and debilitated children of Liverpool,who might benefit from the fresh air an... read more
Hoylake West Kirby and District Nurseries and Babies Hospital, silver badge
A scarce silver and enamel badge for the Hoylake West Kirby & District Nurseries and Babies Hospital.This one is in blue enamel and bears the image of the Mariners Beacon at West Kirby,the lighthouse at Hoylake and a shipping navigation beacon at Crosby.The establishment was set up as a convalescent home for the sick and debilitated children of Liverpool,who might benefit from the fresh air and... read more
Westwood Hospital Bradford,Mental Handicap Nurses badge
A badge for Mental Handicap Nurse Training at the Westwood Hospital Bradford.Founded in 1918 as a colony for mental defectives it was absorbed into the NHS in 1948 and eventually closed in 1996.I believe this badge dates to the 1970s.The shield shape badge has a silvered top section bearing a nurses lamp of learning, below this is a dark green section with a silvered rose of Yorkshire with the ... read more