Newham Mayor 1969

Mrs Marjorie Helps, Mayoress of the London Borough of Newham in 1969, COHSE (now Unison) member at Plaistow Hospital

Picture Colm O Kane COHSE Regional Secretary and Mr E Chaubert COHSE Regional Chairman

COHSE Nurses and The Poll Tax

Unison Student Nurses Campaigning Against Poverty Pay 2000

Unison nursing students campaigning for better pay in 2000 outside St Thomas Hospital with Florence Nightingale masks

Nurses 1982

UK Nurses in action during the 1982 12% pay Campaign

Nurses Uniforms 1938

Nurses uniforms and prices 1938

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Local Pay - 1996

Local pay is the only way forward for nurses, according to to the health secretary. Stephen Dorrell told the Conservative Medical Society fringe meeting

"Pay should not be fixed in Whitehall, but be a core function of local manangement at local level is somtething we regard as instrinsic to the local flexible health service we have developed"

Stephen Dorrell Conservative Party conference October 1996

article Nursing Times 16 October 1996

Nurses Red Eyes Poster - Unison 1996

Unison poster launched October 1996 - a take on the Blair "demon eyes" campaign

launched at Bourenmouth and top with Unison nurses at University College London Hospital

Under paid, over worked and under stress No wounder 25,000 nurses quit the NHS last year  - UNISON Nurses

COHSE Cornwall Banner

COHSE Health Care Union banner

Looks like 1979 pay campaign

COHSE London Region - National COHSE conference 1990

 

 COHSE London Region - National COHSE conference circa 1991

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Spain - Nurses Arrested at No10 - 1939

While nurses from Spain distributed leaflets at the entrance to Downing street on 30 January 1939 declaring Neville Chamberlain was responsible for the deaths of men, women and children in Spain.

Two nurses walked up to No 10 and threw red paint over the doorway

The paint was intended to be symbolical of the blood spilt in Spain.

The women were nurses who recently returned from service with the Spanish Republican Forces, one of them Angela Guest is particularly well known for her work, and the other is Eileen Palmer. Both were arrested

The leaflets said
"Chamberlain is guilty of blood that has flown in Spian for two anfd a half years, because the legal Spanish Government has been deprived of the right to buy arms to defend itself against foreign intervention

We British nurses who have served in Spain demand that Spain be given back her right to defend herself. Open the frontier ! send arms to Spain! Save Spain!, Save Britain ! Save Peace !

The nurses shouted "Arms for Spain" as they threw the paint later appeared in Bow Street police Court charged with "insulting behavior" which was later withdrawn , however they were bound over for six months and ordered to pay  5 shillings damages

COHSE London Banner - Harriet Harman MP 1990

Irish Nurses - Boer War

Ambulance Dispute - Support day 30 January 1990

Nurses Strike 1988 - COHSE Nurses

London COHSE Nurses on strike 1988

COHSE Wales

COHSE Wales presentation by David Williams

circa 1980

COHSE Nursing - Nightingale sticker

COHSE Nurses 1979

COHSE nurses present Jim Callaghan with a doll "Jim's Baby" at  No 10 during the 1979 pay dispute

NHS 1998 Birthday celebration Guy's Hospital

NHS 1998 Birthday celebration

 Guy's Hospital July 5th 1998

Nalgo - Put People First Hot Air Balloon

Nalgo - Put People First Hot Air Balloon circa 1982

NALGO Sports Clubs

NALGO has a large network of Sports and social Clubs well into the 1980's and some clubs even continued into the new union Unison.

Most town's had their NALGO cricket and/or NALGO football clubs

Watford Nalgo Cricket Club V Watford Football Club at Cricket