Nuneaton Street by Street Through Time is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this part of the country. Reproduced in full colour this is an exciting examination of Nuneaton the famous streets & the famous faces & what they meant to the people of this area throughout the nineteenth & into the twentieth century. Looking beyond the exquisite exterior of these well-kept photos readers can see the historical context in which they are set & through the authors factual captions for every picture & carefully-selected choice of images the reader can achieve a reliable view of this towns history. There is something for everyone here whether they have lived in the area all their lives or whether they are just visiting this Warwickshire town. ...

Nuneaton Through Time is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this part of the country. Reproduced in full colour this is an exciting examination of Nuneaton the famous streets & the famous faces & what they meant to the people of this area throughout the 19th & into the 20th Century. Looking beyond the exquisite exterior of these well-kept photos readers can see the historical context in which they are set & through the author's factual captions for every picture & carefully-selected choice of images the reader can achieve a reliable view of this town's history. Readers are invited to follow a timeline of events & watch the changing face of this vibrant town as Peter Lee guides us through the streets of Nuneaton. There is something for everyone here whether they have lived in the area all their lives or whether they are just visiting this Warwickshire town. It also shows how photography has continually evolved to keep up with an ever changing society. ...

' Matron smiled. It was the smile that one woman gives to another & not the chilly facial movement from Matrons of old. Do you think you would be able to work 9 to 3.30?" For a moment I couldn't think at all. There seemed something not quite right in being paid for so little labour'. At the end of the Second World War as husbands came back to Civvy Street their wives had the luxury of staying at home with the children. For a short while at least. Soon Evelyn realised she had to find part-time work to make ends meet & to her astonishment she was offered part-time hours at her old hospital. The day-to-day job hadn't changed much but she was now a nurse & mother. Whooping cough & measles could still kill a small child & the early '50s polio epidemic left the whole country in shock. But the nurses worked hard moaned incessantly about their aching feet & yet found things to laugh at just as they did from the start of their training. If old soldiers never die then neither do nurses." ...

Brussels 1915. It is a frosty April evening in occupied Belgium when a beautiful young woman finds herself on the run from the enemy. Also being pursued is Ned Scott a British army major who has been badly injured. The pair find themselves at a hospital run by the famous Edith Cavell who agrees to treat the major while offering them both refuge & a false identity
- she names the young girl Anna. However it seems no one is safe & as details of Anna's true identity emerge the enemy's net tightens. Meanwhile the major is torn between his desire to stand by brave Edith & the knowledge that he must escape. Closely watched wherever they go is there anyone these three people can trust? & will love have the power to overcome the horrors of war?
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This book the second in a series of four unique War Diaries produced in conjunction with the Imperial War Museum will tell a story that is rarely heard: the experiences of a nurse working close to the Western Front in the First World War. Incredibly Edith Appleton served in France for the whole of the conflict. Her bravery & dedication won her the Military OBE the Royal Red Cross & the Belgian Queen Elisabeth medal among others. Her diary details with compassion all the horrors of the war to end wars including the first use of poison gas & the terrible cost of battles such as Ypres but she also records what life was like for nurses & how she spent her time off-duty. There are moments of humour amongst the tragedy & even lyrical accounts of the natural beauty that still existed amidst all the destruction. ...

Attractive clever & wilful Lily Knowles is desperate to leave home. So at twenty-one she escapes to London to train as a nurse where she gathers many admirers
- none more dashing than RAF officer Sandy Redfern with whom she falls in love. But the coming of war with the chaos of the Blitz brings upheavals & unforeseen entanglements. On hearing of Sandys reckless affair with a married woman a heartbroken Lily throws herself into her work. Then further changes in circumstances bring her to a busy RAF hospital in Hampshire where a faithful childhood sweetheart persuades her to become engaged to him. & then fate brings Sandy Redfern back into her life physically scarred by burns & inwardly embittered. What of their once passionate love & her present commitment? Can the past ever be recaptured?
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' We were quickly learning to live with war. We became very proficient at moving the patients who could walk quickly to the shelters when the sirens went. We were equally proficient at talking those who couldn't walk into believing that they would be safe where they were. Some believed us others didn't.' Surprising Matron as well as herself Evelyn Prentis managed to pass her Finals & become a staff-nurse. Encouraged she took the brave leap of moving from Nottingham to London
- brave not least because war was about to break. Not only did the nurses have to cope with stray bombs & influxes of patients from as far away Dunkirk but there were also RAF men stationed nearby
- which caused considerable entertainment & disappointment & a good number of marriages... But despite all the disruption to the hospital routine Evelyn's warm & compelling account of a nurse in action shows a nurse's life would always revolve around the comforting discomfort of porridge & rissoles bandages & bedpans.

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' It must be stressed from the start that I was not a born nurse. Not every girl is. Not every nurse is either however wholeheartedly she may throw herself into the project once she gets going. Born nurses can be easily recognised. They have a little something the others haven't got which never seems to desert them however desperate the circumstances may become.' Desperate circumstances were something Evelyn Prentis had to get very used to when she began her life as a nurse. It was in 1934 that Evelyn left home for the first time to enrol as a trainee at a busy Nottingham hospital in the hope of GBP25 a year. A Nurse in Time" is her affectionate & funny account of those days of dedication & hardship when never-ending nightshifts strict Sisters & permanent hunger ruled life & joy was to be found in a late-night pass & a packet of Woodbines." ...

' Joanna had scraped up the uneaten rice pudding from all the plates & stuffed it into a spare pillow case. Louisa & Rebecca had collected the bunches of grapes which the patients' kind relatives had brought them & were treading them into wine in the hospital hip-bath. Daniel had swapped round all the charts at the heads of the patients' beds which told what was wrong with them & added a few suggestions of his own. Romilly had turned the Little Ones' cots upside down & made sort of wooden cages out of them; & the Little Ones were pretending to be in a zoo. All the other children were doing simply dreadful things too.' The Brown children have feigned illness & been taken to hospital but with Nurse Matilda running the show they have little chance of keeping up their antics for long. ...

Orphan Mabel Courts dreams come true when she enters the Booth Street Poor Law Infirmary as a probationer nurse. But it is August 1914 & her world is about to be turned upside down. She soon meets Norah Mc Loughlin another probationer & the two girls
- together with Mabels childhood friend Maudie now a music-hall dancer
- become firm friends. As war rages across Europe they try to keep their spirits up but when Mabels fiance Harry Drover is wounded at the battle of the Somme Mabel realises that the life she & Harry had always hoped for is now impossibility. Then when Maudie falls pregnant by an officer & Norahs young man is lost at sea all three girls are forced to face the fact that life will never be the same again.

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