They’ve always cared

The second part of our look back at health services in the city focuses mainly on the people who have cared for and served their community.

The group pictures of nurses starts (top left) with a photgraph taken during the First World War.

Unfortunately, I have no more information, so if anybody does please get in touch.

The next picture along is more recent, showing students from the Nursing Preliminary training school in January, 1968 taken at Peterborough Memorial Hospital.

The third and fourth group shots also have scant detail with the picture caption referring to the people on them as Churchill nurses. Can anybody shed any light on this?

The picture immediately above shows a 1930s’ fundraiser for the Peterborough people’s hospital with city mayor Lister Robinson.

The picture (top, far right) shows sandbagging the operating theatre at a Peterborough hospital. Can anybody put a date to the picture?

The final two pictures are taken from Stephen Perry’s booklet

entitled Peterborough’s Hospitals. The first one shows The Gables in Thorpe Road which was built as a private house for the Bee by family before becoming a maternity hospital in 1947.

The last baby born there was on October 4, 1970 with the first arriving in the new Peterborough Maternity Hospital (right) later the same day.

The last picture shows the maternity hospital prior to demolition.