Nurse Hilda Secombe with Norman Cobbo at Cherbourg Hospital 1961

Hilda Secombe, a registered nurse works at Cherbourg Hospital in the 1960s. During her stay in Cherbourg she took many photographs. Her collection gives an insight of life at Cherbourg Hospital in the 1960s.

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