Gwen Mary Gibbons outside Northampton General Hospital where she did her SRN and…
1951–1968
Gwen Mary Gibbons outside Northampton General Hospital where she did her SRN and Midwifery Part 1. Part 2 followed at Mile End Hospital in London and she qualified in 1951. After qualifying in midwifery in 1952 she worked at Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester. Her future husband was studying for a teaching diploma at Winchester College. About 1954 she worked at Brackley cottage hospital where she progressed to be acting matron. Gwen married Mr Laurence Frederick Johnson at Helmdon village church on August 20th 1955 and then stopped work for a while after her first child was born at Brackley cottage hospital in 1956. She resumed midwifery at Stamford Hospital around 1968-69 after her fifth child started school. Eventually she became the ward sister of Greenwood Ward. She retired shortly after the ward closed in the mid 1980s.
