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Steve Bradley B'ham Mail 18 Jan 11
Heroic nurse and Anglican nun Sister Dora is often known as Walsall’s answer to Florence Nightingale in her compassionate care for townsfolk.
Born Dorothy Wyndlow Pattison on January 16, 1832 at Hauxwell, a small North Yorkshire village, she arrived in the town on January 8, 1865 and devoted the rest of her days to nursing, particularly those with industrial illnesses.
Before that Dorothy, the second youngest child of the Rev Mark James Pattison, and sister of the scholar Mark Pattison Jnr, had run the village school at Little Woolstone, Buckinghamshire…
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B'ham Mail 11 Jan 11
Tributes to a Walsall nursing heroine will be paid to coincide with her birthday. The memory of Sister Dora will be honoured in Walsall on Sunday – the same day as her birthday – with a service at The Crossing at St Paul’s at 11am.
Mayoress Yvonne Clarke will place the first floral wreath at the Sister Dora statue in nearby Bridge Street when the congregation leaves the church at 11.50am…
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Express & Star 4 Dec 10
An £18,000 glass sculpture has been unveiled as a permanent tribute to heroic nurse Sister Dora and her good works in Walsall.
The 7ft sculpture, which has been named the Spirit of Sister Dora, is in the new main entrance area of Walsall Manor Hospital in Pleck Road…
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Express & Star 3 Dec 10
Demolition of one of the final remnants of the old Walsall Manor Hospital is now under way after its multi-million pound transformation.
The redundant Sister Dora block is being pulled down to create extra parking space for visitors after a £170 million revamp of the site…
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Deborah Stewart Express & Star 7 Sep 10
She dedicated her life to caring for dozens of patients and was ever present in times of tragedy, now a statue of Sister Dora has been given a fitting new home.
A refurbished plaster cast model of the nursing heroine has been dedicated at a ceremony at Walsall Manor Hospital’s new buildings created as part of its £174 million transformation. It has been loaned to the hospital after bosses suggested it would be a more appropriate place for it…
Photo feature
Stuart Williams Flickr 2 Jul 10
Photographs of Queen Street Cemetery and “Sister Dora Gardens”, Walsall, 25th June 2010.
Let us call a space a spade, dear viewer.
This feeble sign is but an insult to the dead, who have no voice to complain.
What do YOU say? Read these few stones, and weep…
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The YamYam 29 Jan 10
The plaster cast model used to make an iconic Walsall monument to nursing pioneer Sister Dora could find a new home at the Manor hospital. Walsall cabinet meet on 3 February and are expected to agree to relocate the artwork from the Council House foyer to the entrance hall of the new hospital building.
Dorothy Pattison came to Walsall in 1865 as a volunteer nurse to work in Walsall’s tiny hospital in Bridge Street. She dealt with a smallpox epidemic and horrific industrial injuries suffered on the railways, iron works and mines and became known as Sister Dora, Walsall’s equivalent of Florence Nightingale. She died on Christmas Eve 1878 of breast cancer and crowds of local people turned out to witnessed her funeral. A statue commemorating her service to the town was unveiled in 1886 and still stands on the Bridge in the town centre. It is thought to be to first statue in Britain of a woman not of royal birth.
Chief Executive of Walsall Hospitals NHS Trust, Sue James, has written to the council asking if the model of the statue could be relocated to the newly refurbished Manor. Cabinet members have been advised to approve the relocation as a loan to the NHS Trust on the understanding that it remains the property of the council and the trust are liable for any repairs should it be damaged. Leader of Walsall Council, Mike Bird, said: “Sister Dora would be going home, in effect, as the hospital is a fitting environment for our nursing heroine.”
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Lichfield Blog 7 Apr 09
An historic collection of coins and medals has been exhibited online including a medallion commemorating the unveiling of the statue of Walsall’s famous nurse Sister Dora…