Record

Document ReferenceMS 805
TitleNursing memorabilia of Honoria Mary Frayne (1905-), trainee nurse at Nottingham General Hospital, 1901-1942
Date1901-1942
Extent6 items
AbstractStudent notebook, photographs and textbooks relating to the nursing training of Honoria Mary Frayne
LevelFonds
Access ConditionsAccessible to all readers.
Admin HistoryLittle is known about Honoria (Norah) Frayne beyond what can be ascertained from the contents of this collection. She was born in the Shardlow registration district in late 1905, and entered the School of Nursing at Nottingham General Hospital, aged 20, on 1 November 1926. According to her training record (Uhg/T1/1) she was living at 69 Wilsthorpe Lane, Long Eaton, and had been a millinery assistant. She completed her training in May 1931 and went into private nursing. The Nurses Memorial Home at Nottingham General Hospital, where she lived during the period of her training, had opened in 1923. She married Henry Brittle in 1933 and lived in Nottingham.
Custodial HistoryThe collection was given to the Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections, The University of Nottingham, by a family member in 1992.
DescriptionThe collection consists of the following items:

Student notebook of Norah Frayne, with the title 'Nursing and Hygiene' written inside the front cover. Contains dictated notes on various aspects of nursing, marked and corrected in red pen. Corrections are dated November and December 1926. The first six pages comprise a dictated copy of the Rules of the Nottingham General Hospital Nurses' Memorial Home (MS 805/1);

Programme for a Grand Bazaar in aid of Nottingham Children's Hospital, 1901 (MS 805/2);

Mounted black and white photograph showing three nurses and a surgeon attending a patient lying on an operating theatre bed, captioned 'Ear Nose and Throat Theatre - me on left', n.d. [1920s] (MS 805/3/1); and printed copy engraving showing the Nurses' Home at Nottingham General Hospital, signed in ink by Alan Sherwin, n.d. [after 1923] (MS 805/3/2);

Printed book, 'A First Course in Hygiene', by Robert A. Lyster, revised and enlarged by Col. R.J. Blackham (7th edn, London: University Tutorial Press Ltd., 1926). (MS 805/4);

Printed book, 'The Nurses's Dictionary', originally compiled by Honnor Morten, revised by Florence Taylor (50th printing, London: Faber and Faber Ltd., 1942). (MS 805/5);
MgtGroupPersonal papers
Health records
ArrangementNo archival arrangement has been necessary.
LanguageEnglish
TermHospitals - England - Nottingham - History - 20th century
Nursing - Study and teaching
Nurse practitioners - England - Nottingham
FindingAidsThis description is the only finding aid available for the collection. Copyright on the description belongs to The University of Nottingham.
ReprodnNoteReprographic copies can be supplied for educational and private study purposes only, depending on access status and the condition of the documents.
ConditionGood
Related MaterialThe Nursing and Hygiene notebook is similar to Uhg/T 11/1 and MS 817. See also the records of the Nottingham Children's Hospital (Uhc)
Related RecordUhg
Uhc
MS817
Publication NoteMS 805/2 appears in Lucia Crothall, 'Let's Begin with the Children: Children's Hospital 1869-1978' (1978).

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Persons
CodePersonNameDates of existence
NA77520Nottingham General Hospital; School of Nursing
NA1198Nottingham Children's Hospital
NA77533Frayne; Honoria (Norah) M. (1905-); Miss; trainee nurse at Nottingham General Hospital, 1926-19311905-
Places
CodeSet
PL1263Nottingham General Hospital/Nottingham/Nottinghamshire/England
PL1/Nottingham/Nottinghamshire/England
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