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THE June 2019 LEE For The Lee, Lee Common, Hunts Green, Kings Ash and Swan Bottom Editorial-Lee The Lee Fête Saturday 15 th June 2:00 pm speaking By Kathryn Clark By Jonathan Batten reparations are underway for ne of the jobs of the Editor is the annual church fête which to try and write an editorial to P will be held on the green. O fit precisely into the space Local author Jenny Senior will be remaining after the substance of the opening the proceedings and there edition has been set – here goes! will be a fine selection of stalls as Apart from the 75th anniversary of usual, including the unmissable tea the D-Day Landings it’s a party tent serving cream teas and month: World Cup Cricket Party at the homemade produce. LCC, The Lee Church Fête, the Once again the children from Lee Usbornes’ open garden in aid of Common School will entertain us with Scannappeal, Noel Coward at the Old traditional maypole dancing; test your Church, LCSA summer party and then quick reaction skills with Splat-the-Rat; next month, the big one: The Lee try your luck on the tombola and don’t Flower Show and The Lee Flower forget to buy your raffle tickets! We will Show Dance. have our hugely successful bric-a-brac It’s all here in the newsletter – and book stalls. Take a ride in the steam what’s not to look forward to! car or on a pony or sit back and quench We might also remember another your thirst with a glass of Pimms. DD (no, not the beer or the cup size): For those who want to test their Que será, será strength, don’t miss the tug-of-war and Sales & Lettings Whatever will be, will be for kids, the bouncy castle is not to be The future's not ours to see missed. New this year we have the 64 High Street Great Missenden Que será, será barrow of booze raffle, Scouts are Buckinghamshire HP16 0AN What will be, will be providing a human fruit machine and, Tel: 01494 890990 Please send your contributions for as June promises to be a scorcher, kick next month’s edition to and splash is making a comeback! email: [email protected] [email protected] or Came along and enjoy a fun afternoon www.jeremyswan.co.uk hard copy to the editor, Peter Archer, with all the family. at Mulberry Cottage, Blackthorne Many thanks to all those who have Lane, Ballinger by 12 th June. already offered assistance. More offers 2 3 are always welcome. Enquiries for This is Dorothy’s story: specific stalls and donations should be D-Day 1944 – “It was 1944 and I was in my third directed as follows: year as a student nurse working in a Teas and home produce – Pippa hospital north of London. We lived in Hart 837340 remembering a lovely, purpose built nurses’ home Bric-a-brac – Rod Neal 837264 close to the hospital each with our own Raffle/Barrow of Booze/Pimms – Dorothy’s story bedrooms. We worked long hours, six Judy Hart 837340 / Kathryn Clark By Anthea Hartley days a week and our wages were very 07887 746669 n 2016, whilst having tea with meagre after our board and lodging Plants – Trevor Pearce 837601 Dorothy Golding, I asked her to had been deducted – so little, in fact, Tombola – David Gurney 07795 describe to me what it was like to The patients were mostly English I that we were paid cash in hand. 542115 be a member of the nursing profession and required general nursing to treat In May of that year about eight of Toy Stall – Rachel Harris 837415 during the 1940s and throughout the their various injuries but they did not my colleagues and I were warned to be Books – Andrew Cowper 837922. Second World War. spend very long in the hospital. The prepared to leave the hospital at short doodle bugs were raining down along Dorothy was almost completely notice, although we had no idea why. the coast and the patients were moved blind. So, with her permission and We were to pack our bags with our as quickly as possible to the safety of under her supervision, I wrote the uniform and ‘mufti’ – after twelve Your letters hospitals further inland. story of her experiences in the war aprons, dresses, caps, collars and cuffs My nursing colleagues and I Hideous-Lee when she was a student nurse sent to there was precious little room for mufti! remained at the hospital until the last To the Editor care for the wounded soldiers as they One evening I was just starting a of the casualties had been transported The last two newsletters have included were rescued from the beaches of night shift when we were told that we Normandy during the D-Day Landings details of the litter picks in both th would be leaving that same morning at Ballinger and The Lee. on 6 June 1944. 8:00 am – I worked my night shift until Despite the best efforts of the 2:00 am and then prepared to leave the volunteers, there are those who persist hospital early that same morning. in dropping litter. The photograph A coach arrived to collect us and below was taken recently of the bench we started our journey through by the bus stop at Swan Bottom. London collecting a number of nurses Please can I remind everyone to from other hospitals en route. Our take their litter home or dispose of it journey took us to the South Coast responsibly... and also encourage others where we learned that we would be to do the same. nursing the survivors of The Ruth Fowler Normandy Landings which took place Swan Bottom on 6 th June 1944. The premises had previously been a mental hospital, so on our arrival we busied ourselves giving it a thorough clean, making and airing the beds and preparing to receive the casualties. It was two or three weeks before the first patients arrived in charabancs that had been converted into ambulances to cope with the aftermath of D-Day. 4 5 to safer locations and then we too and dressing wounds was our priority a tribute to her and all the thousands of returned to our various hospitals in the treatment of injuries. other medical personnel who where we continued our general Anaesthetics were administered by a contributed to the war effort and saved Low Vision nursing training. doctor dripping chloroform onto a so many lives. There can be only a piece of gauze, which was held over handful of war veterans left who can the patient’s nose and mouth. tell us, first hand, their experiences on Day I remember one time when the D-Day 1944. th surgeon had to shout at the doctor to We were so fortunate to have been Tuesday 18 June wake her up because she too was able to hear Dorothy’s story in 2016 inhaling the fumes of the chloroform because to-day she has little recall 12:30pm to 4:30pm and was beginning to fall asleep! whatsoever of her nursing career. Often GPs would carry out the Thank you Dorothy. more simple operations but surgeons Princes Risborough Commu- had to be brought out from the London nity Centre hospitals to carry out the more Stratton Road, HP27 9AX complex procedures. My nursing Here to help There were no antibiotics in those career spanned many, many years and days but we did have penicillin. We I always loved my job.” with sight loss See demonstrations of equip- made the dressings by hand and then Aftermath By Bucks Vision ment including magnifica- sterilised them in the operating Dorothy is now 95 years old and here are an estimated 23,000 theatre’s sterilization unit. Cleaning tion and digital technology. living in a care home in Chesham. She people living in is profoundly blind and has suffered T Buckinghamshire and Milton Speak to charities and local Ironing service almost total memory loss but, despite Keynes with sight loss. groups. her extreme frailty, she has retained However, sight loss doesn’t mean Open to professionals / mem- her sense of humour and has an you stop living or enjoying your life extraordinarily pragmatic approach as and we are here to support people to bers of the public who wish she accepts her situation with dignity. do this. We offer a range of services to find out more about Dorothy now needs 24 hour including advice and information on sight loss. nursing and, when I visited her a few living with sight loss; practical support days ago, she told me how wonderful on using new technology; advice and her friends and neighbours have been information on equipment; 01296 487 556 Reliable, flexible ironing service in helping her to retain her befriending, reading and shopping [email protected] is available. independence for so many years. The services; and social activities. In the Chiltern area, we have a www.bucksvision.co.uk On your premises or collect and staff at the home are very kind and when Dorothy thanks them for their Friendship Club based in Chesham deliver. Registered Charity no 1147814 help they tell her: “Dorothy, you have and another one in Princes Competitive rates. spent your whole life looking after Risborough. These clubs are places for References on request. other people, now it’s your turn”. people to meet others with sight loss Some light housekeeping may I think it is appropriate that and enjoy entertainment and outings.