| Title: |
Gwen Kirby
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
Somerset Record Office. Somerset Archive and Record Service.
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| Collection: |
Exmoor Oral History Archive Collection
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| Description: |
Gwen Kirby trained as an SRN at St Thomas's Hospital and then at Great Ormond Street. Night duty was 28 nights on and two nights off. They were locked into the nurses home during the day, but she was too tired to mind. She went back to Great Ormond Street in 1951, as Matron. She was there 18 years, during which time she fought to be allowed on committees and looked after her nurses. She was made an LVO on her retirement.
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Audio: |
[Audio available]
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 2000 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Kirby, Gwen, 1911-
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| Speaker gender: |
Female
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1911
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| Speaker place of birth: |
Kent, England; England; United Kingdom; Europe
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| Speaker race: |
White
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| Speaker occupation: |
Nurse
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| Age at speaking: |
89
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| Document date: |
2000
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| Locations discussed: |
England; Europe; Somerset, England; United Kingdom
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
England; Europe; Exmoor (England)--Biography; Exmoor (England)--History; Moors (Wetlands)--England; Oral history; Somerset, England; United Kingdom
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| ASP release: |
2006-01
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| Document code: |
OHI0033891-37183
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