Category Archives: Health
Celebrating Orange’s Nurses
Today, 12 May, is International Nurses Day and also Florence Nightingale’s birthday. To mark this occasion we’re sharing one of our favourite nursing photographs, former Orange Base Hospital Matron Agnes Fields, Matron Elizabeth Kerr and Matron Edna Goldstone taken in 1988. What … Read more
Guided Tour of Bloomfield Campus
To enable people to see for themselves the magnificent Bloomfield site and learn about its history Orange and District Historical Society have organised a guided tour led by Dr John Hoskin from 2pm on Saturday 12 April. Participants should meet … Read more
The History of Bloomfield Hospital
The next meeting of the Orange and District Historical Society will be held on Wednesday 9 April and will focus on the history of Bloomfield Hospital.The history of the hospital goes back well before it was opened in November 1925. … Read more
