Anna Neagle

[jenny1977]

She was attractive in a 'safe' kind of a way - maybe this is why she does not have the recognition today that the likes of Margaret Lockwood has.

Loved Michael Wilding in Spring in Park Lane.

[David Challinor]

This is a long-shot but I'll try it. My late father (who died when I was 4) had a severe heart attack in either 1964 or 1965 (yes, I know very little about his later life)....while in hospital recovering one of his only pleasant memories was that Anna Negle was in the hospital at the same time, I think suffering from her heart too. 'Anyone so familiar with her life story to identify that time?

[Joenoir]

name='darrenburnfan']yes, and the nurses really cared for their patients and had plenty of time for them; the wards were always spic and span, so they obviously had cleaners who could really clean and there wasn't a trace of C-Diff or MRSA anywhere. Oh, for the NHS of fifty-two years ago!

name='Steve Crook']Yes, when they got you out of bed at 6am and you weren't allowed to go back to bed until 10pm.



When there wasn't anything available for pain relief between aspirin and morphine.



Those were the days



Steve

I had no experience of hospitals in "the good old days", but my mother spent a great deal of her time in them and she never mentioned anything about getting out of bed at 6am etc. I am just curious to know more about this.

[Ray]

name='Joenoir']I had no experience of hospitals in "the good old days", but my mother spent a great deal of her time in them and she never mentioned anything about getting out of bed at 6am etc. I am just curious to know more about this.

I will never forget my nightmare experience at Kingston Hospital in 1966. I was wheeled into a side room in agony and eventually a nurse came in and said, and whats wrong with you? Eventually she brought me a razor and told me to shave myself, and she didn't mean my face! When I threw up a load of green stuff they decided that my appendix had ruptured, and a woman doctor managed to scar me for life when she did a botched up job of removing my appendix. I should have sued them for neglect, but I was young and naive.



The one good outcome of that ghastly experience was that I left home the following year because I was so scared of ever getting ill again and having to go back to that awful place. I should add that I was in Catterick Military Hospital in 1956 and loved it so much that I didn't want to leave.



The Good Old Days, I don't think so!

[CaptainWaggett]

Watch The Lamp Still Burns to find out what the Good Old Days was like for the nurses (unless they got lucky and had Stewart Granger in their ward )

[Joenoir]

It sounds like you had an horrendous experience, Ray, not as much fun as it's depicted on screen. I assume you were doing your National Service in 1956, what was so good about Catterick Military Hospital?

[Ray]

name='Joenoir']It sounds like you had an horrendous experience, Ray, not as much fun as it's depicted on screen. I assume you were doing your National Service in 1956, what was so good about Catterick Military Hospital?

I was in the Regular Army Joe, although I signed on for 22 years with a 3 year option. I decided that I had had enough after 3 years, and got an honorable discharge in 1958.



I had to go into the Military Hospital as I had impacted wisdom teeth, the first and thankfully the last time (up till now) that I had to have any extractions. They just made what was a rather nasty experience very pleasant, everyone was so nice and friendly, considering that this was a Military establishment 54 years ago, and Catterick did have a terrible reputation.