Rushden Research Group: Rushden Sanatorium - Service Staff Photogallery

From the archive of Rowan Flack
Former Clinical Nurse Officer, Rushden Hospital, 1966-1990.
Presented by Greville Watson, March 2010

Photogallery of Medical Staff

at Rushden Sanatorium

Cake to celebrate the Coronation, 1953

L-R: Matron Nellie Dickens, Alice Duffy (Head Cook), Mair Perry, and Margaret Stewart (Cook)	L-R: Margaret Stewart, Alice Duffy, ??

(Left) Miss Alsopp, first matron when Rushden House first became Rushden House
Sanatorium.
(Right) Dr. J.H. Crane, first doctor at Rushden House Sanatorium.
Pictured with Miss Sartoris and Mrs Crane in front of Rushden Hall.

Dr Randolph W.B. Greig

Dr. Greig was born in Aberdeen in 1909 and gained his medical qualifications from the University of Aberdeen in 1935. He subsequently worked in hospitals and clinics in Darlington, the Isle of Man, and Grimsby, where he met his wife and married in 1940. He enlisted in the Royal Army Medical Corps during the Second World War and served in North Africa and the Middle East.


Dr Greig (front) in the Army	Christmas Day Wedding

Having developed a specialism in diseases of the chest, he was for a time in charge of a T.B. Hospital in Palestine. He was also member of the medical team who went into the concentration camp at Belsen in April 1945.

He was appointed to the staff of Rushden House Sanatorium in November 1946, as Deputy Medical Superintendent and Assistant Tuberculosis Officer for Northamptonshire County Council. He was promoted to Senior Hospital Medical Officer in Diseases of the Chest in July 1948. Dr. Greig and his family lived in Wymington Road until his sudden death in April 1952.

Dr. Lord, Medical Superintendent at Rushden House described him as “a particularly pleasant colleague, quiet and humorous”.


Dr Greig, Dr Lord (in chair), and Sister Mair Perry	Dr Greig's family

Greig Family History website: http://www.family-trees.org.uk/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I960&tree=FullTree

Joan Hipsey, 1950s

Nurse Hall c1918

Nurses Butcher, Walker and Wilson,
and Little Eddie, June 1925


Sisters Hall & Healling, 1925	Nurse Wilson, 1925	Nurse Eagle, 1925


Margaret Stewart & Matron Ward	Bridie Nolan (Matron's maid)

Front row
Tusan	Margaret	senior clerk/typist
Hazeldine		office clerk
Mobley		domestic assistant
Allen	Audrey	seamstress
Bryan	Ritanella	enrolled nurse
Partridge	Jane	medical secretary
?		patient
?		patient

Middle row
White	Peter	charge nurse (chest)
Marriot	Josephine	senior enrolled nurse (clinic)
Davis	Margaret Isobel	ward sister (chest)
Perry	Mair	assistant matron
Fisher, Dr	Oscar Elliot	senior chest physician
Hensman	Elsie	voluntary worker "Friends"
Morris	G Anne	sister (treatment centre)
Flack	Rowan James	matron nursing officer
Simmons	Susan Eliz	ward sister (chest)
Jennings	Sarah Eliz	nursing auxiliary

Taken December 1968
for a presentation to Arthur Colton
Chairman - Tuberculosis After-Care Committee

Back row
Nolan	Bridie	matron's maid - dining room maid
Smith	Grace Ethel	ward orderly (auxiliary)
Hopkins	Frank	engineer
Duffy	Tommy	stoker - porter
Perrot	Marjorie	nursing auxiliary
Benton	David John	staff nurse
Prior	Eric	hospital secretary
Fisby	Allen	admin. charge nurse
Leeson	Frank	charge nurse (dermatology)
Minney	Peter	head gardener
Komarnyski	Nesta	stoker - porter
Liwak	Helena	domestic assistant

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