Cold winter’s night in Portarlington, Co. Laois, with a #WarmFire glowing nicely onboard Midland Great Western Railway No. 583, pictured on sugar-beet duties in the Midlands. #ArchivesAdventCalendar #irishrailarchives #ExploreYourArchive🔥🚂❄️

These nurses were undertaking their preliminary training at Whipps Cross nurses in 1953/4.

Lesson 1 - how to use your cape defensively, lesson 2 - precision snowball targeting of matron!

#ArchivesAdventCalendar #HistNursing #Snowball #Snow #SnowballFight [SBHXWX/P/1/1/46]

Most of the hospitals in our collection have photos showing the wards decorated at Xmas time. This photo is from the Eastern Hospital c.1960

#ArchivesAdventCalendar #Decorations #Mistletoe

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This year more than 20% of the enquiries we received were from people researching their family history. They've used our parish records, hospital admission and discharge registers, and nurse training records to track their ancestors

#ArchivesAdventCalendar #Family #Geneaology

#WinterWonderland landscape captured during 1917 of a branch line train in snowdrift @ Ballywilliam, Co. Wexford; today’s theme for #ArchivesAdventCalendar #irishrailarchives #ExploreYourArchive 🚂❄️⛄️

Locos working roadside lines required #bells to warn other road users; examplified by “ST. MOLAGA” of Timoleague & Courtmacsherry Railway Co. Cork; glass-plate negative ex-IRRS Archive.🚂🔔#ArchivesAdventCalendar #exploreyourarchive #irishrailarchives

Today’s @arascot.bsky.social #ArchivesAdventCalendar theme is #ChristmasCharity. The Woman’s Club of Danbury/New Fairfield sells poinsettias as their annual fundraiser and the proceeds go to many area non-profits. And they are *the* most beautiful plants!