Papers of Stella Isabelle Reynolds (nee Piggott)

Reference:GB 1199 C930
Dates of Creation:1938-2017
Physical Description:

Scope and Content
Personal papers of nurse and midwife Stella Isabelle Reynolds (nee Piggott)
Laminated A4 sheet containing biographical details about Stella Isabelle Reynolds (nee Piggott).
Copy of the eighteenth edition of a Central Midwives Board publication titled: “Rules – framed by the Central Midwives Board under the Midwives Act, 1902 to 1936” published by Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co. Ltd, 1946
Certificate from the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, London for passing an oral examination in Advanced French, dated 1945
Laminated facsimile copy of a black and white photograph showing a group of five nurses in uniform. Reynolds is the centre figure on the top row.
Laminated dacsimile copy of a black and white photograph showing seven girls in school, uniform. Reynolds is sitting at the centre of the bottom row, holding a football.
Laminated facsimile copy of a black and white photograph showing Isabelle Reynolds in her midwife's uniform, holding a baby.
Certificate from the Central Council for the Care of Cripples [This is contemporary phrasing] awarded for the successful completion of the council’s final exam in orthopaedic nursing, awarded 17 Feb 1944
“Wembley Hospital” notebook containing notes from nursing lectures, 7 Feb 1939 – 7 Sep 1939
“St James’ Hospital, Balham, S.W.” notebook containing notes from nursing lectures, 4 Mar 1938 – 29 Mar 1938
“Wembley Hospital” notebook containing notes from nursing lectures, 26 Aug 1939 – 6 Jun 1940
“St James’ Hospital, Balham, S.W.” notebook containing notes from nursing lectures, 5 Mar 1938 – 11 Mar 1938
Red bound notebook, missing back cover, containing notes from lectures on gynaecology, 22 Jun 1940 – 3 Mar 1944
“Wembley Hospital” notebook containing notes from anatomy and physiology lectures, 26 May 1939 – 7 July 1939
“Wembley Hospital” notebook containing notes from nursing lectures about bones, 6 Dec 1938 – 11 Apr 1939
“Wembley Hospital” notebook containing notes from anatomy and physiology lectures, 7 Oct 1938 – 29 May 1939
“Wembley Hospital” notebook containing notes from “Medicine: Materica Medica” lectures, 18 May 1940 – 18 Jan 1941 – Inside are 23 recipes for sick patients, and three essays titled “Surgery Test” all dating to 1941. These items have been packaged separately for preservation purposes
Administrative / Biographical History
Stella Isabelle Reynolds (nee Piggott) was born in Middlesex on 5th Feb 1920. She trained as a midwife in Wembley c. 1938 and qualified as an orthopaedic nurse in 1943. She married Frederick Reynolds in 1949 and moved to Harrow, where she had three sons. She passed away in 2017, aged 96.
Access Information
This collection is available for research. Readers are advised to contact the RCN Archives in advance of their first visit.
Other Finding Aids
Most recent online Royal College of Nursing Archives Catalogue available at http://www.rcn.org.uk/development/library_and_heritage_services.
Conditions Governing Use
Royal College of Nursing