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David Geyer with a photograph of his great-grandmother Rebecca Strong who he last met in 1939 when she was 95 TWO hundred years ago there was no such thing as a professional nurse. If anything, it was a casual occupation which attracted impoverished and unskilled women - often prostitutes - who saw it as an easy way to earn some “gin money”. Some did not even wait until their work was over, getting disgracefully drunk on the hospital wards during night shifts. “This was pre-1850s,” said Dr Kate Stevens, a consultant nephrologist in Glasgow. “When nursing started out it tended to be people who were ‘also rans’ might be the best description. Often it was people who were in prostitution.
Teacher Charles Sharpe, who has died aged 75, never forgot his native Dundee
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Charles Sharpe, who has died aged 75, left Dundee in 1957 aged 12 but remained a passionate advocate for the city throughout his life.
He founded the website leavingdundee.blogsport.com in which he shared memories, photographs and drawings of his early life.
A drawing of Frankie Davies cafe in Dundee by Jackie Sharpe.
Charles spent his career in teaching in England and also founded an online publication goodenoughcaring.com for dealing with matters relating to parenting, foster parenting, residential child care and youth support..
Madeleine Eggleston obituary
Madeleine Eggleston set up a family planning clinic in Taunton, Somerset, in 1960, and worked there for 35 years
Madeleine Eggleston set up a family planning clinic in Taunton, Somerset, in 1960, and worked there for 35 years
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Sun 25 Apr 2021 12.33 EDT
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My mother, Madeline Eggleston, who has died aged 93, was a doctor at various hospitals around the UK and had a special interest in the health of women, especially in relation to family planning.
She was was born in Brockley, south London, to Alice (nee Baillieu), a clerical worker, and her husband, Thomas Russell, a professional viola player. When she was a baby the family moved to Cardiff, and later they settled in Hampstead, north London, from where Madeleine was evacuated to Surrey at the outbreak of the second world war.
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