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The Liverpool Tapestry:
People, Places and Passions
This Superlambanana illustrates the dedication of the nursing
profession, “All devoted nurses and bear ye one another’s burden”.
The nurses portrayed are Florence Nightingale, Agnes Jones and
Mary Seacole.
Florence Nightingale is perhaps best known for her pioneering work
in the Crimean War, but it was the establishment of her nursing
school at St Thomas’s Hospital in London that laid the foundation
of the nursing profession as we know it today. Agnes Jones was one
of her first trainees, and following her training was invited by William
Rathbone to lead an experiment in the Brownlow Hill Workhouse to
bring nursing care to sick paupers, becoming the first trained Nursing
Superintendent of the Liverpool Workhouse Infirmary. Mary Seacole
was a Jamaican nurse who travelled to London to request that she
be sent out the Crimea as an army assistant. When she was refused
permission, and not selected as one of Florence Nightingale’s team
of nurses, she borrowed the money to pay for her own passage to
the Crimea, where she used her knowledge to treat injured men of
both sides on the battlefield. Both she and Florence Nightingale were
honoured during their lifetimes for their contributions to nursing.
Devoted Nurses Superlambanana
Designed and stitched by Margaret Crichton