Great Northern Central Hospital, Holloway Road, Holloway, Greater London

Photograph taken 11 Jun 1888 © Reproduced by permission of Historic England Archive ref: BL08709

Interior of the number 3 Female Ward showing nursing staff and patients. Florence Nightingale set up the Nightingale Nurses Training School at St Thomas' Hospital, London, in 1860. This opened up a new profession for women.

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Greater London Holloway

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Victorian (1837 - 1901)

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The Comptometer room at the Stratford Co-operative Society, showing girls and boys working on model 'E' comptometers. The comptometer, invented in 1887 by American, Dor Felt, was the first successful manual calculating machine. Many of the boys and girls look very young to be at work. The school leaving age was only raised to 14 in the Education Act of 1918 so they could well have been younger than that.

Great Northern Central Hospital, Holloway Road, Holloway, Greater London

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