Nurses on Steps at Avonside, 1940. Taken by an uncle at the time I was born. My Aunt was a midwife sent to Avonside at the beginning of the war, when it was temporarily used as a nursing home for evacuee pregnant mothers.
Image courtesy of Diane Sparkes
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It’s December 2020 and I would like to thank my aunt back row right for bringing me into this world when she delivered me and announced to my mother “it’s a boy” at this beautiful place 80 years ago. Yes I am still in the land of the living, moved to New Zealand 55 years ago. Been back twice, to this home – my birth place, which is still as lovely as ever, although I don’t remember it at the time naturally!
As a member of Bidford History Research Group, I am writing an article on Avonside during World War II, and appreciate any information on the doctors and nurses who staffed the Maternity Home and the babies born there. In particular, does anyone know the names of the nurses in the photograph?
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