Archive Documents

Archive Documents - Family

We're going through all of our parents pictures and documents. They're being posted 'as they come out of the box'. So for the time being are in no particular order.

Mums birth certificate 1937

Below: Mums school report 1953 Heaton High School. Newcastle

Below: Mums School report 1954

Above: Mums nurses training end of year presentation program, dated Thursday 6th December 1956 and held at Newcastle General Hospital. By the time of the nurses qualification event in December 1959 mum was married and her surname had changed to Keen.

Below: Family Planning Association training certificates from 1974/5 while mum was working at the St Giles St surgery in Northampton

Below: Mums nurses 'practical instruction' logbook from 1956.

Below: Qualifying as a District Nurse, July 1964....which came with a free uniform.

Below: Becoming a Health Visitor in Northampton May 1970. 23 hours a week with a salary of £1599 pa.

Below: Qualifying to teach Health Visitors

November 1984

Below: RAF Christmas postcard. Sent by Dad to his parents while serving in India. December 1946

Below: Dads National Savings certificate from 1959. Now worth £4.

Below: Dads dads ex-servicemans certificate of identity 1920.

Below: Dads parents ration books 1953/4

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