I cannot remember what happened yesterday or the day before but well remember my first working day in Findon on 21st September 1935 (what a marvellous organ the brain is).

I started out on my bike just before 9 a.m. for the Saturday visits.   My first call was to young Michael Hogan who lived in Nepcote.  He was very poorly with whooping cough I recorded his temperature and gave advice to his mother; then on my bike again to visit Mrs Lamsdale in Findon Valley.  

On again to visit the treasurer of the Findon Nursing Association to sign various forms.   From there I came back to the main road to visit Mrs Dann who lived at the "Toll Cottage" at the bottom of Bost Hill — it has now been taken down, a great pity for on the outside wall were written the "toll payments".  

On again to Hook Lyn in Findon High Street to visit Mrs Davey who lived with the Churchills, I will tell you about this very interesting family another time.

Time was getting on so I thought I had better look up the next maternity patient who was due for delivery in a fortnight.  She lived in Stable Lane in an army hut at the back of Mr Sidney Thruscott's house.   It was a large wooden hut divided into two dwellings, long since demolished.

Home now for lunch and in the afternoon I had a good inspection of all the nursing equipment and the nursing registers.   In the late afternoon I had a phone call to visit young Jack Stock.   He had been playing football and had a very black eye.   I advised his mother about treatment and said I would call in again on Monday.

Mrs Stock was a good mother to Mrs Ida Sanderson (nee Winton).   Ida died almost two years ago and Jack was at the funeral.   I reminded him of that incident of many years ago and he said he remembered it well, and said it was a real corker of an eye.

Joan Day