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At the Coalface - The Memoir of a Pit Nurse (Paperback)
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At the Coalface - The Memoir of a Pit Nurse (Paperback)
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Loot Price R472
Discovery Miles 4 720
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A heart-warming story of a woman who devoted her life to helping
others. This is the memoir of Joan, who started nursing in the
1940s and whose experiences took her into the Yorkshire mining pits
and through the tumult of the 1984-85 miners' strike. Joan Hart
always knew what she wanted to do with her life. Born in South
Yorkshire in 1932, she started her nursing training when she was
16, the youngest age girls could do so at the time. She continued
working after she married and her work took her to London and
Doncaster, caring for children and miners. When she took a job as a
pit nurse in Doncaster in 1974, she found that in order to be
accepted by the men under her care, she would have to become one of
them. Most of the time rejecting a traditional nurse's uniform and
donning a baggy miner's suit, pit boots, a hardhat and a headlamp,
Joan resolved always to go down to injured miners and bring them
out of the pit herself. Over 15 years Joan grew to know the miners
not only as a nurse, but as a confidante and friend. She tended to
injured miners underground, rescued men trapped in the pits, and
provided support for them and their families during the bitter
miners' strike which stretched from March 1984 to 1985. Moving and
uplifting, this is a story of one woman's life, marriage and work;
it is guaranteed to make readers laugh, cry, and smile.
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