THIS week's edition of nostalgia will focus on Cumbria's medical memories across the years.

This collection of photos show our medical professionals hard at work. After the work our NHS staff provided before and during COVID, and continue to provide now the dust has somewhat settled. We decided to go back into our archives to discover what hospitals looked like and nurses got up to throughout the decades.

One photo from the collection is Mary Eleanor Hall who was the commandant of the auxillary military hospital at Cockermouth Castle during WWI.

One pictures shows Cumberland Infirmary on Christmas day in 1968. Not only do the nurses provide car around the clock, no matter the day. They also provide comfort and happiness to those unfortunately in hospital over periods like Christmas.

Others snaps include nurses winning awards such as the annual Carlisle Nurse Training School prizegiving at the city General Hospital. Miss Dorothy Toft, matron of the City General Hospital, Carlisle is pictured with some of the nurses who attended a function to mark her retirement in 1967

There are some pictures of award winning medical proffesionals as nurses from hospitals in Carlisle are pictured receving prizes at the annual Carlisle Nurse Training School prizegiving at the city General Hospital in July 1973. Another shows the nurses prize-giving held at Salkeld Hall, Carlisle in 1974.

Another picture shows a Cumbria nurse collecting signatures for better pay for nurses in English Street, Carlisle.