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Post by Miranda on Oct 19, 2016 14:05:18 GMT
Fascinating documentary about the making of the statue due to stand outside St Thomas's Hospital and about Mary Seacole herself. They also went to the Crimea and stood above the Valley of Death.
It's amazing how she got all the stuff out to that place. She must have had one heck of a trade route! And she was so brave! Helping injured men under fire is just.... mad. No wonder the soldiers loved her.
And it's about bloody time there was a statue of her.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2016 15:38:55 GMT
Had never heard of her before she was featured on my Google homepage recently it seems Florence Nightingale was not the only lady with a lamp.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2016 15:47:18 GMT
They have a building ( admin now) named after her at Scarborough Hospital.
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Post by Miranda on Oct 19, 2016 18:34:50 GMT
Had never heard of her before she was featured on my Google homepage recently it seems Florence Nightingale was not the only lady with a lamp. They were both amazing women in their own ways. The mere fact that Mary Seacole went from Jamaica to Russia on her own and paid for herself and for all that stuff and managed to arrange restocking in the middle of a war zone is amazing.
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Post by Delia on Oct 20, 2016 11:23:14 GMT
Heard about this remarkable woman years ago. Always wondered why she was never spoken of as much as say, Nightingale.
I was so pleased to see her commemorated on the Google page this week.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2016 19:53:57 GMT
Just watched on catch up. A very interesting documentary about a remarkable woman. Shame it was on so late. Proves ITV can make good quality programmes like this one.
I recall another one broadcast a few years ago possibly on the BBC.
The only fly in the ointment was the pompous Nightingale admirer. His attitude was pretty awful. There's room for statues of both women in the grounds of St Thomas' Hospital. They both achieved great things.
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Post by Miranda on Oct 20, 2016 20:27:17 GMT
Well, TBH I wasn't surprised at his attitude. Just from the look of him, he seemed a pompous, upper-middle class, privileged white man. So him supporting Florence Nightingale, who was from a similar background, was no surprise.
It was a shame cos it did leave a bit of a bad taste that he couldn't be gracious about it.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2016 15:35:38 GMT
Glad it wasn't just me.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2016 19:47:17 GMT
Just watched on catch up. A very interesting documentary about a remarkable woman. Shame it was on so late. Proves ITV can make good quality programmes like this one. I recall another one broadcast a few years ago possibly on the BBC. The only fly in the ointment was the pompous Nightingale admirer. His attitude was pretty awful. There's room for statues of both women in the grounds of St Thomas' Hospital. They both achieved great things. I think that we have only learnt about Mary fairly recently as the white upper classes of their time would have wanted to air brush Her out of History, mainly because of Her colour. I believe Prince Albert was a passionate advocate against Slavery ,if the ITV programme about Victoria is accurate
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Post by Miranda on Nov 11, 2016 21:27:04 GMT
Was he? I hadn't heard that before.
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Post by Miranda on Nov 11, 2016 21:32:21 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2016 13:53:16 GMT
That's very interesting. Good for him.
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