I thought you might like to see this photograph which was taken in 1880 in County Roscommon, Ireland...
These women were all nurses in the local hospital...not sure I'd want any of them looking after me next time I have a severe chest infection...!
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yikes ......................................running away................
Erm...I take your point Vashti !!! Lol, no disrespect to the old dears - they do look rather stern. The third from the left looks just like Ena Sharples 
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don't tell me you remember Ena from the glad tidings mission
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Lol... maybe nursing was her day job! Come to think - Ena Sharples and 'glad tidings'
don't sit too well together....you could say 'mission' impossible
Couldn't resist that Ant!
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How old are you lovelight? coughalot x
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Eee, by the 'eck... flamin' cheek! But since you asked I'm 59, and I LOVE Corrie, the only soap I watch. I was 6 years old when it started and it reminds me of a warm and happy childhood. How about you coughalot - what TV programme best reminds you of your childhood? Lovelight x
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I am 60 and my family always watched Corrie so snap. That's the only soap I ever watch. Childhood programmes? Mm Ok here we go - Mash, Star Trek (the original), The Waltons, Robin Hood, The Lone Ranger, Land of the Giants, Lost in Space, Bonanza, High Chaparel, Big Valley, Last of the Mohicans, Garrisons Guerillas, Adam Adament, Juke Box Jury, Top of the Pops. As you can see we rarely watched telly
Yours? coughalot x
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thanks I feel ancient know but they were good programs in their days
goodnight John boy
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Night Elizabeth coughalot x
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xxxx I forgot the rest of the family cept Maw and Paw
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John, Olivia, grandma, grandpa, Jason, Ben, Jim-bob, Mary-Ellen, Erin. Don't forget reckless the dog and Chance the cow.
I am very sad
coughalot x
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not at all must be lovely to be able to remember your childhood
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How about any more of yours lovelight? coughalot x
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Haha! Most of the ones you've mentioned coughalot cos we're the same era and have the same good taste in soaps!!! Who could forget Dr Kildare, Emergency Ward10, Zcars, and Rawhide with Clint Eastward...mmm I better not get started on the kids programmes but I had a special favourite shown around 5pm that only a few seem to remember. It was called Mr Piper, he lived in some kind of castle and used to sing the opening song. I LOVED this song and have now found it on YouTube .
(Bet I'll be singing it as I start and get dinner ready )
Lovelight xx
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oooh...I just loved Rawhide...don't remember Mr Piper though but then we didn't have a television when I was a child...used to watch my friends instead
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Omg can't believe I forgot Rawhide! I didn't like Clint Eastwood though - it was Eric Fleming (Gil Favor) for me. And don't forget the Fugitive With David Janssen - I thought he was gorgeous!
coughalot x
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeek I'm staying away from hospitalssssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
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Why are you talking like that about my sisters? ROFL
Bobby
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Sisters Bobby? Thought they were your daughters coughalot x
OMG JUST IN TIME FOR HALLOWEEN LOL
Well u'd get better quick just to get out of there, either that or they were ment to scare u to death one less patient lol x Sonia x
Old photos fascinate me. The females always look so old and staid. I have a photo of my grandmother looking around 55-60 but she must have been in her 30s. Children to come. They had to stay still for the photographer.
Truly scary!
Nursing used to be seen as a disreputable profession in which only the lowest and the most desperate of working class women would undertake. Sure looks like that in the photo!
coughalot x
WOAH!! I think I might just feel much better if I was faced with those nurses...................xx
A group of dedicated caring ladies...!!!!!!!! Begorrah and Saints
preserve us.
ha ha! Excellent - a reminder of how tough life used to be.
Squeak of fear ..... joining eyes running away lol
oh my !
ha ha
i think they would probably know more than some of the health care workers ive met
vashti, They might frighten the bugs away. IN those days they didn't have any antibiotics!
Don't be too hard on them. Life was pretty hard back then & of course no synthetic off the peg clothes. Mind you I do agree that they are a bit scary.
Cheers
I think they were fed up with standing still for the camera. Probably in a hurry to go home.
They look well dressed for the time. Note the leather gloves on view and the hats tied on with ribbons. Poorer women would be wearing shawls and plain skirts.
The ladies here have neatly pinned up hair and their faces. although serious don't look gaunt or underfed.
Nurses by 1880, were being trained in the Nightingale system. I think these ladies were trained by the standards of the time.
Bahahahahahhaha...scary indeed....hells bells. lol.....
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