Victoria Hospital Blackpool,State Registered Nurses badge

A base metal and enamel nurses badge for the Victoria Hospital Blackpool.In an oval shape bearing the figure of the goddess Hygeia over the crest of Blackpool,which features black and golden waves and a seagull relating to it's seaside location.
This is the SRN version with blue enamel to the edges.Good condition with the enamel intact and plated finish good.Pin and clasp intact. Makers ...  read more

Code: 53982

The Doris Cooper Memorial Medal,St Georges Hospital ,silver gilt nurses award

A cased nurses prize medal ,the Doris Cooper Memorial Medal, for St Georges Hospital.
The medal features a female figure with a shield holding aloft a laurel wreath.It is suspended from a green silk ribbon with yellow borders and has a bar brooch suspension with St Georges Hospital on it.The rear is engraved for Lucinda Mary Agerholm 1970.Length 85mm. In its original fitted presentation ...  read more

Code: 53980

Cardiff Royal Infirmary,Bronze Nurses Prize Medal

A very rare prize medal awarded by the Cardiff Royal Infirmary for Nurse training.These were ,I believe, awarded to the nurse gaining the highest marks in their exams and were issued in a gold, silver and bronze category. They feature the design of the nurses badge in each of those metals suspended from a silk ribbon.
This one is unnamed but in good condition. In its original silk and ve...  read more

Code: 53978

Royal Isle of Wight County Hospital Silver Nurses Badge

A rare silver badge from the 1920s for the Royal Isle of Wight County Hospital at Ryde. Unusually the face is engraved to the recipient M Russell Nov 1 1921 to Nov 1 1924,Rear is engraved with a laurel wreathe and hallmarked for 1920 with manufacturers mark for Vaughton & Son. Pin and clasp intact but several surface scratches and dings as for age.A nice heavy rare item 18gm Height 32mm  read more

Code: 50101

Royal Eastern Counties Hospital Colchester Silver Nurses Badge

A silver and enamel badge for the Royal Eastern Counties Hospital in Colchester.A major hospital for the care of patients with learning disabilities,this badge dates to 1969.In good condition with enamel,pin and clasp intact.It bears the hallmarks for Thomas Fattorini and year letter for 1969.Unnamed .Height 33mm  read more

Code: 50353

Sheffield North Trent College of Nursing & Midwifery group of badges

A group of 4 badges awarded to the same nurse for her Enrolled Nurse training at Sheffield North Trent College of Nursing & Midwifery.
These consist of a General Nursing Councillor England and Wales Enrolled Nurse badge, numbered SEN 190410. A badge for the Sheffield North Trent College of Nursing & Midwifery and two members badges for the Royal College of Nursing.  read more

Code: 53975

The National Guild of Nurses,Members Badge

A large enamelled badge for another of the many nursing organisations which poloiferated over the years.Unfortunately I have been unable to find out very much at all about this but don't believe it is related to the current International Guild of Nurses.It appears to date from the 1980s or 90s and features a book of learning about the torch of Nursing.condition is good.height 38mm  read more

Code: 53973

Manor Park Hospital,Bristol Nurses Badge

A scarce Chrome and enamel nurses badge from the Manor Park Hospital Bristol.Originally opened as a prison in 1779 it went on to serve as a workhouse and institution for Mental Defectives before it was renamed Manor Park Hospital in the 1950s.It served mainly as a Geriatric Hospital and this badge would date to the late 50s or 60s.It features the crest of Bristol within a laurel leaf border.Goo...  read more

Code: 53972

North Liverpool Enrolled Nurse Training School,John Bagot Hospital,Nurses Badge

A Base metal and enamel badge from the North Liverpool Enrolled Nurse Training School. The central Motif is a lamp of Learning with a flame this being above the title John Bagot Hospital.Good overall condition, pin and clasp intact.Makers mark for Fattorini & Sons 56 Barr Street Birmingham  read more

Code: 53971

National Asylum Workers Union,members badge

A rare members badge for the National Asylum Workers Union.Founded in 1910,The new union’s slogan, “All for one and one for all: thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself”, was adopted early on at the same meeting, at the Boar’s Head Hotel, Preston, on 24 September 1910, at which the union was named. The first half of the slogan can be seen on the union’s badge.
By July 1912, the NAWU had...  read more

Code: 53970