Matron was strict - but good

About 50 years have passed since this photographs was taken, but for former nurse Julia O'Riordan they still hold happy memories.

This shows a group of nurses outside the now-demolished Nantwich Cottage Hospital. This picture features Irish-born Julia, affectionately known to her colleagues as Bridget, who now lives on Beam Street, Nantwich.

She says: "We had happy days together. The matron christened me Bridget because she didn't think that Julia was Irish enough!

"I had a lovely time there nursing and people were very kind and very good to me.
"I remember wanting to ask the matron about going to church on Sunday and she said she could tell I was a Catholic by the badge I wore, and she said she would do her best to make sure I could go. She was very strict but was good to us."

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