| Re: Bristol artwork celebrates Brunel's pop-up Crimean hospital Posted by welshman at 14:48, 3rd February 2025 |     |
And Betsi Cadwaladr
| Re: Bristol artwork celebrates Brunel's pop-up Crimean hospital Posted by CyclingSid at 08:53, 3rd February 2025 | |
Looks like it could do with the addition of Alexis Soyer, chef at the Reform Club. Went out to Crimea to improve the army catering arrangement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_Soyer#Crimea. The Soyer Stove was still included in the post-WWII edition of the Manual of Army Catering Services. The Home Office had a stock for use after the nuclear apocalypse.
| Bristol artwork celebrates Brunel's pop-up Crimean hospital Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 18:54, 2nd February 2025 | |
From the BBC:
Jacqueline Braithwaite's history-focused work is on display in Bristol
A piece of art featuring Isambard Kingdom Brunel's design plans for a Crimean War pop-up hospital has gone on display in Bristol.
Brunel designed Renkioi Hospital in six days after pleas from Florence Nightingale to help improve poor sanitation in field hospitals.
The wooden structure was made in England and erected in Crimea in 1855.
The artwork's creator, Jacqueline Braithwaite, said it was "mindblowing" to see it at SS Great Britain's Dockyard Museum in Bristol, where it is being exhibited as part of the charity's Community Research programme.
Ms Braithwaite's work features images of the hospital plans printed on a large piece of cloth, overlapped with images of maps, boats and the faces of three "independent and influential women" of the time – Florence Nightingale, Mary Seacole and Frances Duberly.
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