Essex Area Health Authority Harlow District,Silver Nurses Badge (Mauve)

A Silver and enamel Nurses badge from the Harlow Health District of the Essex Area Health Authority.Established in 1974 under the NHS Reorganisation Act of 1973,it was itself replaced by the later West Essex Health Authority in 1982.This is one of three variants issued for the different branches of Nurse training during that 8 year period.
The design features a pair of hands denoting Car...  read more

Code: 54182

Essex Area Health Authority Harlow District,Silver Nurses Badge (Red)

A Silver and enamel Nurses badge from the Harlow Health District of the Essex Area Health Authority.Established in 1974 under the NHS Reorganisation Act of 1973,it was itself replaced by the later West Essex Health Authority in 1982.This is one of three variants issued for the different branches of Nurse training during that 8 year period.
The design features a pair of hands denoting Car...  read more

Code: 54181

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 th...  read more

Code: 53914

Canterbury Christ Church University ,Nurses Badge

An enamelled badge for the Nursing course at Canterbury Christ Church University.The centre bears a Canterbury Cross on a red background within a blue enamel border.Excellent condition.Height 37mm  read more

Code: 54180

London School of Occupational Therapy Badge

An enamelled badge for the College of Occupational Therapists London School.it consists of an oblong with red enamel on which the letters COT with two snakes to the base.Good overall condition.Makers mark for Thomas Fattorini Regent Street Birmingham.Height 29mm  read more

Code: 54179

Cherry Orchard Fever Hospital Dublin,Silver Nurses Badge

A rare silver and enamel nurses badge for the Cherry Orchard Fever Hospital Dublin.
Opened in the 1950's at Ballyfermot in Dublin, it replaced the Cork Street Hospital in the centre of the city. The badge consists of a green enamelled cross within a circular border bearing the latin Semper Fidelis Semper Paratus- Always Faithful,Always Ready.The enamel is worn in places as pictured .to t...  read more

Code: 54175

Holloway Sanatorium,cased silver medal and RMPA pair

A nice pair of Mental Nurses badges 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 desig...  read more

Code: 51568

Prince of Wales (Male)Nurses Federation Montreal , Name badge

An unusual bi metal members name badge for the Canadian Prince of Wales (Male) Nurses Federation.In a white metal with an affixed Prince of Wales' feathers  read more

Code: 54176

Hammersmith Hospital Bronze Prize Badge

A Cased prize medal from the Hammersmith Hospital.It features a Maltese or Pattee cross upon which is a centre containing the emblems of hammers and anvil and winged lion from the hospital badge.This is surrounded by a Laurel wreath in relief.Condition is crisp ,the pin and clasp are intact but loose.The rear is engraved for U.Bankutillenke 1964 ,Makers mark for Spink London.Height 40mm In its...  read more

Code: 52425

Bethlem Royal Hospital,Silver Nurses Medal

A Silver Nurses badge from the famous "Bedlam" Mental Hospital,Bethlem Royal Hospital.Europe's first and oldest institution to specialise in mental illnesses it relocated to the outskirts of London near Bromley in the early 1930s.
The oval medal is suspended from it's original ribbon with pin back suspension bar,this is in a rather frayed condition.The medal is then suspended from an orn...  read more

Code: 54178