Extracts Norah's memoir, written later in life, reveal a determined young woman drawn to missionary work. Initially facing resistance from her family, she found a compromise – training as a nurse at Mildmay.
In August 2023 we received a lovely letter from Christine telling us about her aunt and uncle and their experiences at Mildmay. Maud was a nurse at Mildmay in 1921, but there is so much more...
In 2011 Mildmay sent a former colleague (Lynne Hulka) and me to a project in Ukraine to facilitate some HIV teaching. Here is the reflection I wrote about my experience in Irpen, Ukraine."
Jennie Mary Jones and the hospital with a difference!
"I have pleasure in forwarding to you the enclosed booklet. This came into my possession on the passing of my aunt. She often spoke to me of the time that she worked at the Mildmay..."
Sister Eunice was 96 when she died in early 2021. Her great-nephew Alastair gave the tribute to his aunt at her Thanksgiving Service on 9 March 2021, from which I learned a lot about her background.
"It was a wonderful training for me in more ways than nursing - I was a hippy converted to Jesus with very few practical or people skills. They were important formative years both as a Christian and young woman..."
Dear Mildmay, I recently came across your website and was particularly interested in the archive section, as my mother (Joan Plant, nee Conway, 1929-2008) worked there as a nurse 1949-52.
Barry loved every stick and stone of Mildmay Mission Hospital. He was once a patient, and worked hard as a volunteer chaplain and patient representative on the Trustee Board. Our chaplain, Sister Bernie, tells us more...
Kathleen was involved with Mildmay since the late 1980s. Kathleen kept the papers of the Friends of Mildmay, the Mildmay Trust, the Mildmay Council and Islington community contact for very many years.
Sharon first started at Mildmay in 1993 as a temporary secretary working for the chaplains, but after walking in and seeing the hospital for the very first time, she knew immediately she “wanted to stay, and it has been 26 years since that moment”.
"She used to regale us with stories about Mildmay. She did her training as a nurse at Mildmay. They were good stories and clearly impressed us with the work you were doing."
"On hearing about the death of Eva Heymann, who died peacefully in the early hours of 12th February 2021, in her 94th year, I remembered the time I had invited her back to Mildmay."
Helen Taylor Thompson OBE, née Laurie-Walker, 1924-2020
Helen fought the closure of the Mildmay Hospital and became its Chair when it reopened as the first hospice in Europe for people living with AIDS in 1988.
