Events :: The League of St. Bartholomew's Nurses

Events

For further information, please see the latest copy of the League News.

06/07/2021 - Blood, Guts, Death and Destruction. Tuesday 6 July 2021.

*** This tour is now fully booked. ( 27/02/21) We will endeavor to arrange another tour. Please keep booking! Individuals Will be notified . ***

A walking tour around Barts and Smithfield.

Mentions of bodysnatching, executions,The Black Death, skeletons, hangings and The Great Fire of London.

please note this is a walking tour of up to 2 hours.

Due to the uncertainty of Covid19 restrictions applicants will be kept aware of any necissary changes.

11/08/2021 - Guided Tour and Introduction to the treasures of the British Library. 11 August 2021.

“Discover more about our history, collection and architecture.”

Visit includes the Viewing gallery, Reading Room, the Kings Library and Sir John Riblat Gallery.

The tour starts at 2 pm.

**This tour is proving very popular. We will endeavour to arrange a second tour if numbers make this possible. **

Changes may be needed due to Covid19 restrictions.

All applicants will be kept aware of any changes.

01/09/2021 - Tour of the Leander Club Henley on Thames Tuesday 1st. September 2021.

The Leander club is the most historic, prestigious and successful Rowing Club in the world their clubhouse in Henley is packed with trophies, medals and historic artefacts. Our guide will be a Barts graduate and rowing historian. The price includes lunch and the tour and the option to stay at the Leander club overnight afterwards at a discounted rate.

The tour will begin at 2pm.

Please see your league news for further details.

Due to the uncertainty of events due to Covid19 all applicants will be kept in touch of any changes.

*** please note date change.***

09/10/2021 - All Day Meeting and A.G.M. Great Hall Barts. 9 October 2021.

CThe day starts at 10:30 with coffee.

The speaker this year is Ray Martin Secretary of the Rose Society. UK.

This year talking about the birth of the Barts Rose.

The AGM will follow lunch and prior to the church service in Barts the Great.

The day ends with tea in the Great Hall at approximately 16:15.

Please see your league news for further details and an application form.

***As of 10/03/21 this event is fully booked. We have had to restrict numbers this year due to Covid regulations. If we are able to accomodate more members in the future we will take bookings from the waiting list which is in operation. Please continue to book your place (but do not pay by bacs, cheques will be held in case!). Your name will be held on the waiting list. We will be in touch nearer the time.***

*** As of May 2021 the waiting list is now full! Please contact us for any further help.***

DUE TO COVID RESTRICTIONS (WHICH ARE LIKELY TO STILL BE IN PLACE IN OCTOBER ) THERE WILL BE NO BRING AND BUY STALL THIS YEAR. WE WILL BE SELLING CHRISTMAS CARDS, NOTELETS ETC AS USUAL. WE ARE ABLE TO TAKE CARD OR CASH PAYMENTS THIS YEAR.

Social Life. Hilary Mathews, who qualified in 1973, remembers:
ITV was producing the programme, This Is Your Life. One of the surgeons ran a choir and he was asked to provide a choir for the programme. It was a mystery to us all, whose life it was, and we arrived at the television studio not knowing who it was. When we arrived there was a picture of this elegant lady and we were too junior to know who it was. Then we were told it was a Bart’s nurse called Dame Margot Turner, who was a very eminent army nurse. The programme was about her life as a Japanese prisoner of war. The prisoners had a regular Sunday Service and they’d written a hymn called The Prisoners’ Hymn. So we were there to sing this hymn. At the end of the programme Eamon Andrews said, “And now, Dame Margot, you can hear today’s nurses of St Bartholomew’s Hospital singing your hymn.” So that was what we did. An amazing experience!