On Saturday, 28 June, the Radcliffe Guild of Nurses reached its centenary anniversary – and will now fold due to lack of members.
The first meeting of the Radcliffe Guild of Nurses was held in the Committee Room of the Radcliffe Infirmary on the 16th of June 1925. There were 22 members present at that first meeting. The purpose of the Guild was defined as “to unite all those who have worked together at the Radcliffe Infirmary, and who, although scattered, may be glad to have this link between them, their fellow nurses and their old hospital”. It was agreed that Matron would be the President; an annual meeting would be held on the third Tuesday in June each year and a “leaflet” was to be issued to all members annually. The first leaflet was 4 pages long. It was also decided to have a Guild badge, a replica in bronze of the gold and silver medals awarded to the best hospital finalists. By 1926 the number of Guild members had risen to 104.
Training at the Infirmary between 1961 and 1976, the members met up to recapture the memories of their old stomping ground and we were pleased to support them with capturing some of these memories as pieces of oral history.
Read more about this on the BBC website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0l41d5kw2wo
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