Wonderful Nightingale hospitals but why no Seacole?

Surely it was just a FFS ?
GNHQ are going to have to have their pearls restrung after all this clutching

Monica ditto your post

Yes! I agree. It would be the work of 10 minutes to give each one a different name.

How about the names of the four doctors who died treating CV? All immigrants.

I bet only about 15% of the entire UK have heard of Mary Seacole.

The Louisa Jordan at the SECC is named after a nurse who grew up a couple of miles away from the exhibition centre.Louisa ,who I hadn't heard of is apparently honoured yearly in Serbia for her work during WW1 .
The name of this which I'm fairly sure will be called the SECC by folk in the area has been slated by our unionist friends online as they believe all temporary hospitals should be Nightingale .I cant get worked up about it either way ,I hope with all my heart its never needed .However I cant for the life of me see why local hospitals shouldn't be named after local heroes .

Someone must have reported me!

We are supposed to be laydees on Gransnet.
That is very amusing as my DD never swear and express great shock if I do (rarely).
Mum!!!

I agree Chewbacca A bit of swearing doesn't bother me, it can be very expressive.

Why aren't our posts allowed to swear? Over on Mumsnet, they swear like sailors, constantly. But here, one single swear word is instantly deleted. Why? Are we all expected to be little old ladies, smelling of lavender and wearing crochet shawls?

No Thank you, Nightingale will do nicely.

My house was called Nightingale when it was first built and some silly person went and changed it.

Callistemon! You fibber! That's not why I read in your post! I've never seen you so cross! And I laughed out loud when I saw it; it was the highlight of my day! very boring day

Yes, I have heard of Mary Seacole and there will be other hospitals built, sadly, as the need may be great.
Was her father Scottish - up to Scotland perhaps?

Oh, was it deleted?
Fame at last!!

I swore, oldgimmer but I will repeat the gist of it.

, goodness me, OP, I think my MP has enough to think about at the moment, so, with due respect, I will not bother him at the moment about this.

Let us hope that another hospital will be so named.

Why was Calliestemon's post deleted?

In mitigation, I had just spent a frustrating 2 hours trying to get a groceries delivery slot and this post was the final straw! It is the least thing we need in a national crisis. Perhaps one of the other new hospitals will be named after Mary Seacole. Or Matt Hancock. Or whoever, as long as they are fit for purpose and wonderful staff are available.

It's not like me to use such language, ilovecheese as you may know if you read my posts.

I would say - would it matter what the hospital is called if it manages to save some lives?

What a nice sensible, reasonable, non kneejerk response M0nica

I woulld think because this hospital is so close to what Florence Nightingale did. She worked with builders to construct a pre fabricated hospital that could be taken to the Crimea and re-erected in double quick time to take in soldiers who were not so much wounded as ill with other illnesses, typhoid, cholera and the like. These hospitals epitomise everything she did in the Crimea.

I am not diminishing anything Mary Seacole did, but she did different things. As Wikipedia says she set up the "British Hotel" behind the lines during the Crimean War. She described this as "a mess-table and comfortable quarters for sick and convalescent officers", and provided succour for wounded servicemen on the battlefield.[4], .... she used herbal remedies to nurse soldiers back to health

Florence Nightingale is so closely associated with the organisation and management of emergency hospitals on a large scale, naming the hospitals after her seems particularly appropriate.

Mary who?

Callistemon
I've never seen you so angry!!! It was rather funny coming from you ?

I have read that the Glasgow field hospital is to be named after a Scottish nurse, Louisa Jordan. Surely they can't all be called Nightingale. I think calling one after Mary Seacole would be a very nice gesture of appreciation.

If you were to ask those on the frontline of the NHS my guess is they couldn't give a flying f* about what these hospitals are called - they just want them up and running and equipped asap. Once this is all over there will be plenty of time to honour them all - irrespective of their colour.

Callistemon
After hearing yet another journalist at the daily briefing ask the question ‘ when do you think this ( virus) is going to peak/end ‘... DH said today FFS! We are going to be saying this a lot over the coming weeks.

DH said, yes you do, I heard you trying to get a delivery slot this afternoon!

I found it rather exciting, actually.

Sorry, everyone, it's not like me to swear


But really!!

Well, there are your answers Peaches accept this intimation.