The original caption may contain language which is historic and which may no longer be considered appropriate. It has been retained in the record in the interest of historical accuracy.
The caption on the reverse of the photograph reads: “Nightingale Training School carries on. Picture shows nurses at a lecture in the new St. Thomas’s Hospital, Surrey. They are using the sitting room as a temporary classroom while a new teaching room is being built.”
An emergency hospital to the east of the King George V Hospital in the village of Hydestile, Surrey, was built in 1940 and greatly expanded in 1941 to provide more than 360 beds for St Thomas’ Hospital. Patients and staff were evacuated from St Thomas’ Hospital in Lambeth after bomb damage. The Nightingale Home and Training School for Nurses, based at St Thomas’, was also relocated to the site at Hydestile. The emergency hospital was built as a wooden hutted complex, whilst a casualty department was established in a Nissen hut. The huts survived longer than intended, before the hospital was demolished in 1997. See also MED01/01/2113 and MED01/01/2115-2121. High-resolution copies of this image are available for free for non-commercial use. Please Enquire to place an order.
This is part of the Series: MED01/01 Series of prints; within the Collection: MED01 Topical Press Agency Medical Collection
Source: Historic England Archive
Photographer: Topical Press Agency Limited
Photographer: Harrison, Norman Kingsley
Hospital, Education, Second World War, Women's History, Health And Welfare
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