A beautiful Young Lady

I don't have any information about this image.  I think it pre-dates her marriage to Dad, possibly taken at the Midland Counties Hospital in Knowle.


On leaving school she left Cornwall and started work as a nurse at the Hospital.  It was the beginning of World War 2 and times were hard.  She experienced snow for the first time having never previously seen ‘white stuff’ coming out of the sky.  Mom remembers that one of the governors of the hospital appreciated the work of the nurses so much that on one occasion he treated them to afternoon tea at his home, Packwood House.  This is now a National Trust Property, famous for the topiary in its gardens.