Time and Place is an oral history project which aims to record the experiences of nurses who were recruited by the NHS from the former colonies during the1950s and 1960s.
All the nurses interviewed for this project came from the Caribbean (including Guyana), and trained at Brighton General Hospital in the 1950s 1960s.
The project is being run by Brighton and Hove Black History, a local community history project which aims to uncover the hidden histories of Brighton and Hove focusing in particular on multi-cultural histories in the city.
The importance of Time and Place to our organisation is that it is recording a part of Brighton and Hove’s history that is not well known, at a time when a great number of Black and Minority Ethnic people came to live and work here and contribute to the town (as it was then).
Last but not least, it is our way of honouring these nurses who contributed greatly to British society, not least through help the British Health Service at a time when there was an acute skills shortage.
Ten nurses are being interviewed altogether for Time and Place including 6 who still live in Brighton Hove and West Sussex and one who now lives in Barbados!
Once the interviews have taken place the oral histories will be turned into an mobile exhibition, website and booklet and will be used as a educational resource for Brighton libraries and schools. This will be launched in Black History month (October 2009).
An association set up for SRNs' who trained at the Brighton General Hospital, before it became part of the trust.
Particularly during the period it functioned as a school of nursing in its own right, with no association to other hospitals in the area.
Training nurses over a 3-year period up to taking their finals at the end of that time.
more about the Brighton General Hospital SRN Association.
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