Meeting Les

In the first week of January I finally got to meet Les and discovered that he had worked for the NHS for over 30 years. Matron Bell had just left when he first arrived so he had no first hand memory of her. He mainly worked at Hither Green. He had indeed seen many changes over the years and told me of the time before they had lifts fitted at the hospital and people came downstairs from the operating theatres on stretchers carried by the porters. He also told me of the porters whose job it was to stoke up the fires which burnt in the middle of the wards. Almost unimaginable as you walk around the new Riverside building.