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

Miss Alsopp & Dr Crane
(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.
In the army wedding
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”.
Drs Grieg & Lord with Mair Perry
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 at Rushden Sanatorium
Joan Hipsey, 1950s

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

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

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

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