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In June 1943, Peter Jones had been a qualified doctor for one day when his phone rang. An old friend needed a locum at Mildmay - immediately. Peter got on his pushbike and cycled through the City. By that evening, he was in sole charge of a critically ill two-year-old in the pre-antibiotic era, working from a textbook, in a hospital surrounded by Blitz ruins.

In 1904, a young Irish woman named Norah Hughes arrived at Mildmay to train as a nurse. She left three years later, qualified and engaged to a junior doctor, after a hidden note, a ward fire, and a matron who surprised everyone. She went on to spend two decades in China, training nurses and running a medical mission. Her story is now part of our Staff Stories archive.

A determined young woman drawn to missionary work - initially facing resistance from her family, she trained as a nurse at Mildmay.

We're thrilled to share another update from the archive, thanks to the fantastic research of Andy "K" into his family history...

Carol Anne's dedication to improving care for people living with HIV/AIDS is truly inspiring.

We added former nurse Juliet Priest's recollections of Mildmay in the 1970s to our Staff Stories archive pages.

Maud was a nurse at Mildmay in 1921 and worked here for many years. Charlie was a patient admitted after a violent assault...

Thank you to Priscilla for writing to tell us about her mother's time at Mildmay and her life thereafter.

Rosemary saw our appeal for stories from former staff and patients to add to our archive and kindly sent us the following remembrance...