THESE off-duty nurses are enjoying themselves at a garden party in 1944 in aid of the Keighley and District Victoria Hospital.
They seem to be poking fun at a baby product called Glaxo, and displaying photographs of themselves as babies, presumably for a competition.
Prior to the introduction of the National Health Service, Victoria Hospital raised funds by various means, including the proceeds of the Keighley friendly societies’ galas and the efforts of a Workpeople’s Collection Committee. There was an annual house-to-house collection and a tradition of patients’ thanks offerings. Members of the public regularly sent in gifts and donations.
Garden parties were popular that summer, ranging from one at Cliffe Castle which netted £2,169 for the National YMCA War Service Fund, to another at Crossflatts Castlefields Methodist Church which added ten guineas to their church electric organ fund.
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