Various Womens Institutes gather at the Dilke Hospital 1953.
Courtesy of: John Ricketts. Uploaded: 2006.
1 Mrs. Tom Witts , 2 Mrs Elsie Musstoe, 3, 4 Mrs M Drew, 5 ,6, 7 Mrs.
Burris , 8 Mrs Bird, 9 , 10, 11, 12, 13,14 , 15 Nell Ricketts
(nee Gwilliam),16 Gladys Meredith,17 Mrs. Hattie Moseley , 18 Mrs. Tingle
,19.20, 21, 22 ? Teague, 23 Mrs 'Dick' Brown, 24, 25, 26,
27, 28, 29 Mrs Jones, 30, 31, 32 Miss Merry , 33 Mrs G Joiner (nee Hart),
34 Mrs Mason 35, 36 Mrs. Cannock?, , 37, 38 Mrs. Enid Healey , 39 Mrs
Bishop
, 40
Mrs.
Bishop
, 40a , 41 Mrs
Wincup (bakers’ wife
Coleford), 42, 43, 44, 45. 46 Mrs Margaret Sleeman, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51,
52, 53 , 54 Mrs Burborough (butchers’ wife
Coleford), 55 Nancy Moore, 56 , 57 Barbara Jeffries, 58 Elizabeth (Betty)
Giles , 59 Stella Luker, 60 , 61 Matron, Miss Dorothy Pirie. 62, 63 Mrs. Olaus Jones ,
64 Mrs Davies, 65 Miss Cole (Headmistress St Johns Primary School
Coleford), 66,
67 Mrs. Butcher,
the wife of the Deputy Headmaster (EDGS), 68 Miss Matthews , 69, 70
Mrs. Llewellyn , 71 , 72 Small child at front.
Thanks to Royston Pritchard for the following (Jan 2007): "The occasion
was the opening of the Bus Shelter at The Dilke Memorial Hospital in
memory
of the
coronation
of H. M.
Queen
Eliazabeth
II in
1953. The ladies
are
members of Coleford W.I. (Womens Institute) and Bilson W.I."
Ruth Howes added (August 2010): "... The matron in the front row is I believe my mother Mrs Winifred Kirby. I have a photo of her in this costume in a Cinderford W.I. production. She was not a nurse".
Simon Wood added (November 2011): "... The Matron No. 61 is definetly Miss Dorothy Pirie. Miss Pirie was a great friend of my Mother Nurse Gittings and we were in contact years after she retired and met her years ago in Brighton where she had retired too".
Thanks to Susan Mustoe Cox, S Wood, Maureen Miller, Royston Pritchard, Sue Mclean and Margaret
Baldwin (nee Penn) for help with the names.
This photo appeared in 'The Citizen' on Nov 23 2008 when the current 30 members of Cinderford W.I. celebrated the 80th year of their branch..
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