Themes Page 4 Salisbury Healthcare History

View shows flood water right in front of hospital and along Fisherton Street

Floods and meningitis outbreak

Nurses and other hospital staff seated and standing in rows for photograph

Nurses at Red Cross Hospital

National Health Service begins

Painting showing a lioness attacking horses of mail coach outside a pub

Lion attack near Salisbury – 1816

Gordon Richards being carried on stretcher towards back of ambulance

‘World’s greatest jockey’ treated at Salisbury Infirmary

Princess with nurses talking to boy in traction on a bed in ward

Princess Alexandra’s royal visit

Prince Charles standing with crowds of staff and patients outside Spinal Unit entrance

A royal opening

Introductory paragraphs to William Gilbert's article

A visit to Fisherton Asylum

tiled tunnel with pipework visible

Tunnels at the Old Manor Hospital

Watercolour image of Old Manor

Old Manor Hospital

Letter written from Winston Churchill to Lord Radnor dated 1910

Letter from Winston Churchill

Lorna holding large badge design print out, standing next to display cabinet with Henry

Commemorative nurse badge

newborn baby in cot with certificate

Every baby born

montage of digital drawing of hospital ward street names

The hospital that never was

Old motor car driving past hospital staff and patients standing outside Infirmary gates waving

Fleeting glimpse!

Edith in nurse uniform

Nursing family trees

Letter from Florence Nightingale,15 Nov 1896, page 6

Florence Nightingale letters

View across SGI rooftops, with cathedral spire in background

Roof top theatres

plan of site with handwritten ward names added to some buildings

Early Odstock

line drawing showing woman wearing heels standing with feet together, arrows highlight areas of strain

Housework with ease