The League of St. Bartholomew's Nurses

Planned Reunions

Set 93

We started on 17th November 1969

This year it’ll be 50 years since Set 93 started at Barts and we will be holding our five yearly reunion.

The date is Saturday 16th November 2019 when we will be having a buffet lunch at Malmaison in Charterhouse Square.

Details to follow but please contact Pru Griffiths at socialevents1@bartsleagueofnurses.org if you are able to join us.

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!