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Harrow and Wealdstone Rail Disaster

The Angel of Platform Six

Local hospitals and emergency services found themselves involved in one of the worst civilian disasters in the UK when three trains ploughed into one another at  Harrow and Wealdstone Station in 1952.

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Nurse's parlour, Willeseden, 1911

Nursing in the 1900s

Nurse Blanch Snelgrove offers a rare insight into the life of a nurse at the turn on the 20th Century in Central Middlesex Hospital: the first sixty years.

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ICU nurses

Grace under pressure

The trust has treated several thousand people for Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic and one of the most dramatic stories was that of YouTube influencer Grace Victory who was put into an induced coma less than 48 hours after the birth of her son at Northwick Park Hospital.

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Refugee who became surgeon

A life less ordinary

“I am a dreamer and don’t believe in the impossible,” says Hani Abdul-Jabar explaining his extraordinary journey from teenage refugee to surgeon.

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Peregrines to breed in Ealing Hospital

Peregrines make hospital home

We reported last year peregrines Dusty and Freddie had been using the roof of Ealing Hospital as a roosting site and that the installation of a breeding box would encourage them to mate.

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