Brenda with Purmayah Guzder

Back in Beaumaris, Anglesey after our long trek, we got together with friend Purmayah Guzder who had joined us for part of the trip in Switzerland.

Purmayah considered herself Persian, from the area of India which was ancient Persia. She was a doctor at the Caernarvonshire- Anglesey General Hospital in Bangor where Brenda worked as a Registered Nurse.

This was taken in Mrs. Parry's back garden. July, 1967

Brenda gets ready to go to work as a staff nurse at the Caernarvonshire and Anglesey General Hospital in Bangor. Her uniform color denotes that she is a Registered Nurse. We had taken her certificate and diploma from nursing school with us in order to get her registered - she is now registered in England and Wales as well as the U.S. One surprise we had in that process was that they required her to produce her marriage license as well to be registered as a nurse. You didn't have to be married to be registered, but if you were married, you had to produce the certificate in order to be registered as a nurse!! We wondered what kind of strange bureaucratic background that requirement had - after all, they have had many more centuries to build a bureaucracy. Anyway, Brenda's work as a nurse was overall a pleasant and educational experience.