CELEBRATING 200 YEARS SINCE THE BIRTH OF FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

It’s the 200 years since the birth of Florence Nightingale, the famous Lady with the Lamp, who changed nursing practices forever. But what has any of this got to do with Chilstone? Well read on to find out! A LIFE OF SERVICE Florence Nightingale was born in Italy on 12th May 1820 into an affluent, upper class family and named after the city of her birth. Her older sister was also named after her place of birth, Parthenope, a Greek settlement now in a part of Naples. The family moved back to UK a year after Florence was born to live at the Embley Park estate in Hampshire.

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