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Mothercraft presentation, Spylaw Park
Unknown, 1936, Photograph
Mothercraft presentation, Spylaw Park
Mothercraft presentation, Spylaw Park
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32388
Title
Mothercraft presentation, Spylaw Park
Description
Photograph from the Evening Dispatch 27th June 1936 of a trophy presentation to Mrs Thomas Scott of Portobello by the Lady Provost, Mrs Louis S Gumley. Mary Cunningham, health visitor, is to the far left-hand side.
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Unknown
Date
1936
Size
21.5 x 16.8cm
Type
Photograph
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Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
Taken in Spylaw Park 26 June 1936. A picnic was held on Saturday 27th June 1936 as part of the Hutchison Shield competition. Women attending mothercraft classes in Edinburgh were invited to submit essays on mothercraft with the winner bring awarded the shield. the other 192 entrants were invited to a picnic in Spylaw Park.
This image comes from a photograph album donated to Edinburgh Libraries covering the nursing career of Miss Mary Morag Bird Cunningham. Mary was born in 1888 and at the age of 22 began training at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary (RIE) as a nurse. Once qualified in 1915 she moved to the Edinburgh Royal Maternity Hospital (ERMH) and obviously found her calling in the care of children. In 1917 she became one of Edinburgh's first health visitors as part of the introduction of Edinburgh's Child Welfare Scheme. The album contains early photographs of the RIE and ERMH as well as images of child health care clinics that she worked in during the 1930s at Portobello and Prestonfield.
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Mary Cunningham: Pioneering Health Visitor
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