Eva Young, Sunnyside Nurse
Shelagh Armour-Godbolt
April 2023

Greetings from British Columbia, Canada. I attach a photo of my late aunt, Eva Helen Lucy Young (later Mrs P.Robertson). I have a note that it was taken for her passport application to travel to the UK for nurses training in Manchester, the same hospital where her mother, Elizabeth A. Young (nee Wilkinson) had trained.

​I found and read Roy Bradley's article on your website which has led to emailing you. I enjoyed the details of the Church of England children’s home in 1930 by Miss Harper when it was known as ​The Waifs and Strays Society and the changes brought about by wartime difficulties. Thank you for your contributors’ details about the home. As a child welfare social worker in Canada in the 1960s, I can see how difficult it must have been to meet the changing needs of society and retain permanent staff for the children.
In my aunt's autograph book is a note from a M. Joyce of the Sunnyside Nursery, Box, dated 10 December 1951. I was aware that aunt Eva worked as a nurse at a "children's Home " in Box after graduating from Withington Hospital Nursing School, Manchester, leaving there in about 1951. Her recollections of her time at Box Home were very happy ones.

If Box People and Places can assist me to contact M. Joyce or their family members, I would be happy to send them a copy of the original note to Eva. Another name was Elsie D. Jarvis dated December 1951. I would be happy to make the same offer to her family. Also, in April and May 1952, are the names Hilda Dare Snowden, Sheila Codling, Olive (?) McGinty Codling and one name probably from Box, Elizabeth Butler.
Can anyone help please? If so please contact the website.