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Dad went down to London around the time of the Coronation (1953) ~ one year later he was training to become a male nurse. He was working at the General Hospital located in Homerton High Street, Whitechaple, East London.
While there he accidentally became recruited to stand in as a male model for a hospital advertisement. The man originally picked had become too shy and on scanning around the room dad had been offered to stand in. Dad was not paid any more for this but was well pleased as it took him away from his work and study for the day.
This poster was eventually sent all over the country in an effort to recruit male nurses. It was posted up in the London underground, in job centres, etc.
The man holding dad’s foot was called, ‘Atwood’ ~ he was a friend of dad’s, another male nurse who eventually went on to become a fireman.
The photo-shoot was actually set up in the lecture room at the hospital where there were some empty beds. The photographs were coloured red, white and blue.
Dad’s secret worry when he was picked was that he had holes in his socks but as you can see that did not matter anyway.