Christmas. Jennifer Ingram, who qualified in 1955, remembers as a ward sister:
We would provide Christmas stockings for the patients which we'd fill with little items...and
because I often used to have patients who lived in Salvation Army hostels, I would get little
packets of 10 cigarettes for them, which of course, one couldn't do nowadays.
We went carol singing around the wards at Christmas time and the wards all had small
candles on the lockers. The wards looked really lovely, lit just by candles. It's no wonder it
was such a moving time for the patients, relatives and staff.