One thing the elderly ex-Stafford lady I was talking to in the queue today told me (got to be in her very late 80's / 90's ) ....... She used to be a nurse in the old SGI (she had heard a new hospital was being built , but assumed the old building would have been still mostly there retained as part of history of Stafford ......shocked that just a tiny bit of frontage was still standing ,at least it was up until last time I drove past ) Said in those days nurses didn't need all these qualifications , anyone who wanted to could just apply and be taught on the job.
Lovely talking to someone who actually remembers the underground atmospheric corridors of the old SGI , the old Stafford market, and how Stafford used to be like in my childhood days to be able to relive a bit of the past .
One thing that
DID amaze me and the other couple we were talking to ....after standing for 2 hours when we neared the front of the queue towards the building doors there was a few chairs outside , which we told her to go and sit on and we would keep her place in the queue. She couldn't get past the queue of people infront, so actually
hopped over a low brick wall to get to them.
Bloody fitter than me! Been about 30 years since I could have done that!