Lewisham Gallery

Health - Mobile Matron - Ladywell Lodge, Lewisham, London

Irene Watkins, London's first "mechanised matron", and known to her patients as the Flying Angel, stops her 7mph scooter to talk with Caroline Allen, aged 101, during a tour of the wards of Ladywell Lodge Old People's Home at Lewisham. She used to walk up to 14 miles a day when visiting the 691 residents of the home. Now the Lewisham council have provided her with the special scooter

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Mrs Gerald Legge with young sons Rupert and William

Mrs Gerald Legge(1929- 2016), featured in 'At home to the Sketch', with her sons Rupert(b. 1951) and William(b. 1949), at their home in 12 Chester Street, off Belgrave Square, London. Raine McCorquodale, the daughter of Barbara Cartland and stepmother to Diana, Princess of Wales, was a British socialite and politician; she was married three times and at this time was married to the Honorable Gerald Humphrey Legge, Viscount Lewisham and later, 9th Earl of Dartmouth. She was later known as Raine, Countess Spencer; and Comtesse de Chambrun. Date: 1952

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Mrs Gerald Legge by Glan Williams

The Honourable Mrs Gerald Legge, formerly Raine McCorquodale, the daughter of Barbara Cartland and stepmother to Diana, Princess of Wales. A British socialite and politician; she was married three times and at this time was married to the Honorable Gerald Humphrey Legge, Viscount Lewisham and later, 9th Earl of Dartmouth. Date: 1955

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