Tuesday, May 24, 2016

COHSE Officers 1975


COHSE Officers January 1975 (at Beatrice Webb House, Dorking



Bob Quick newly appointed officer

COHSE Northern Ireland and The Miners






COHSE National Executive Committee member Ray Blaney  - Sterling work solidarity with the Scottish National Union of Mineworkers (NUM).

Ray became well known as a Workers Party councillor and later Ireland's first Green Party councillor

COHSE TUC Delegation 1984


COHSE delegation to TUC 1984 note Chris Brace (behind Sid Ambler) an excellent, well respected and progressive NEC member

COHSE North West Region



Terry Foster originally from Burnley Victoria General Hospital later COHSE Regional Secretary Yorkshire and Humberside

COHSE Region 2 
98 Mansfield road, Intake Sheffield

Bill Berry - COHSE



Bill Berry born 1958 and started work at Liverpool's Walton and Fazakerley Hospital in 1976 as an ODA Technician, later he secured a clinical teaching certificate. In 1984 he became a COHSE Regional Officer in the North West and later UNISON

Bill Berry tragically died in 2014

Addenbrookes Hospital 1984 - Fighting Cuts



COHSE Branch Secretary and National Executive Committee member Haddu Mohammed - Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge and Tory health Minister Kenneth Clarke


A young, high profile and well respected COHSE NEC member

COHSE Branch Secretary for seven years before going on to study at Ruskin College in 1985


Thornton View Hospital Occupation 1984



Thornton View Hospital September 1984

David Williams, Rodney Bickerstaffe, Martin Kineavy

Nurses Betty Elie (COHSE) and Hazel Ward (NUPE)

COHSE Maudsley Hospital 1988






COHSE - St Mary's Hospital 1982

COHSE Tackling Racism 1990 - COHSE Black Members


COHSE Ambulance


Wexham Park hospital 1982


Controversy over injections of patients by nurses at Wexham Park hospital in August/September 1982


RSCH Guildford Nurses On Strike September 1982



Young student nurse Tracey Lambert giving out the orders on the nurses picket line at RSCH September 1982

Kingston Hospital



Prominent Kingston Councillor, COHSE and NHS activists Julie Reay (second left)

Surrey Nurse - Guildford 1982


Surrey Nurse Jeanette Roe and COHSE Branch Secretary (later full time officer)

COHSE Northern Region



Ex Guy's Hospital NHS worker Gill Hale,  later prominent leader of COHSE and UNISON as Regional Secretary in Northern Region

The College and The Winter of Discontent 1979



A Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Council members response to nurses and NHS staff demanding a pay rise in 1979 "Winter of Discontent"

Nora Pearce - COHSE Kingston



Nora Pearce the now famous nurse and midwife from Kingston Hospital

COHSE David Williams With Nye Bevan



A young recently appointed COHSE officer.

David Williams, Denbigh (North Wales) Nurse and future COHSE General Secretary. 

Here (centre) with the great Nye Bevan at COHSE conference 1953 and still campaigning for the NHS in 2016

COHSE at Tolpuddle 1986