By Robert Alcock
LOOKBACK'S special reports marking the 60th anniversary of the NHS have continued to generate responses from local people who worked for the service.
Mrs H M Bleackley of Threlfalls Lane wrote in to tell us about her 39 years' nursing experience - a great tally, although she commented she "could not top" the 48-and-a- half years spent in the NHS by fellow Churchtown resident Geoff White, who we profiled at the time of the anniversary.
Mrs Bleackley wrote: "I started my training at Clatterbridge Hospital [in Wirral] in 1945, when I was 16- and-a-half years old.
"I left there in 1948 (when the NHS was born) to start nursing at the Promenade Hospital and left there in 1951, when as Nurse Mary Yates I was married to RAF Sgt Harry Bleackley.
"I then worked at several hospitals in Southport - ie New Hall, Hawkshead Street Children's Hospital, as well as spending three years at Weston-super-Mare Hospital before returning to Southport and nursing at the Southport Infirmary.
"After serving three years as a district nurse, which I enjoyed very much, I continued to nurse at the Southport Infirmary until I had my first heart attack in 1984, after I had spent 39 years in nursing.
"I really loved my chosen career and was disappointed when I had to retire."
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