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Florence Nightingale - British nursing pioneer |
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 The museum is on the Thames Embankment, a stone's throw from Big Ben.
(on the site of St Thomas’ Hospital)
2 Lambeth Palace Road
London SE1 7EW
UK
Ph: +44 20 7620 0374
Fax: +44 20 7928 1760
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Website: www.florence-nightingale.co.uk
The museum is located on the original site of St Thomas’ Hospital where Florence Nightingale founded the world’s first school of nursing in 1860. Opened in 1989, the museum houses a unique collection of her personal mementoes, clothing, furniture, books, letters and portraits as well as Crimean War relics and nursing material, and aims to grow as the international centre for preserving Florence Nightingale's heritage and interpreting the relevance of her life and work for the benefit of the present and future generations.
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Violette Szabo - French/British WWII heroine (SOE) |
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Violette Szabo GC Museum
Cartref
Tump Lane
Wormelow
Herefordshire HR2 8HN
UK
Ph: +44 1981 540477
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Website: www.violetteszabogcmuseum.org
www.violette-szabo-museum.co.uk
Founded by Rosemary Rigby MBE, the museum opened in 2000 in the grounds of her home, Cartref House. It is a unique memorial to Violette Szabó (1921-1945), who was a British secret agent in France during WWII with the SOE (Special Operations Executive), and was executed at Ravensbruch Concentration Camp in January 1945. British actress Virginia McKenna, who had portrayed Violette in “Carve Her Name With Pride” (1958), launched the appeal to build the museum in 1998. Cartref House had originally been the home of Violette’s uncle and where she had spent many holidays in her youth.
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