| Description | This volume commemorates the visit of Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra of Kent, 28 June 1962, includes presscuttings, official programme, specimen invitation, photographs, (black and white and colour) of, Princess Alexandra entering the Hospital with Mr Evan Ag Norton, Chairman of the Board of Governors' and the Lord and Lady Mayoress, Mr and Mrs E.W. Horton, Princess Alexandra talking to nurses in the Guard of Honour, Presentation of Miss Mary N. Woods, Matron, Presentation of Prof. D.V. Hubble Professor of Paediatrics and Child Health, Presentation of bouquet by patient, Commencement of tour of hospital, Welcome to Ward 6 by Dr. W.C. Smallwood, Senior Physician and Sister B.M. Robottom, tour of Ward 6, examination of Brick League bricks, patients' and tour outside Wards 1 and 9, Presentation of Dr. W.H.P. Cant and Sister E.B. Bromley, presentations of Mr F.C. Rigby, Telephonist, Mr R.H. Bailey, Chief Laboratory Technician and Miss M.E. Baedeker, Supervisor of Medical Secretaries, Miss S.J. Basford, Head Almoner, Miss M.E. Wesson, Head Orthoptist, Mr J.T. Hall, Chief Laboratory Technician, H.R.H. speaks to children from Baskerville School outside the hospital, H.R.H. entering the Nurses' Home, Presentation of Mr C.L. Beck, Senior Engineer, Miss C.M. Pearson, Administrative Assistant, Presentation by Rachel Waterhouse, authoress, of the publication Children in Hospital: A Hundred Years of Child Care in Birmingham, Mr Evan Ag Norton invites the Princess to unveil the commemorative plaque, the unveiling of the commemorative plaque, Mr N.W. Winwood, House Governor, inviting the Princess to sign the Visitors' Book, H.R.H. leaving the West Nurses' Home, H.R.H. on the steps of the Nurses' Home, H.R.H. speaks to the Guard of Honour outside the Nurses' Home, Presentations of Sir Robert Aitken, Chancellor of the University of Birmingham, Miss J.R. Lloyd, Lecturer in Paediatrics and Child Health, Dr. O.H. Wolff, Reader and First Assistant to Dr. Hubble, Sir Arthur Thomson, Chairman of the Birmingham Regional Hospital Board, Dr. E.L.M. Millar, Medical Officer of Health for Birmingham, Dr. Christie W. Gordon, Senior Administrative Medical Officer, Birmingham Regional Hospital Board, Dr. A. Beauchamp, British Medical Association.-[For further copy photographs of the Royal Visit see 7/7/2 below]. |