South Yorkshire Times, July 7, 1951

Two Letters Brought Good News and Bad for Mexboro’ Girl

For the last few years Shirley Hampshire has wanted to be a radiographer. Last year she went for an interview for a place at the Sheffield School of Radiography, where only ten candidates a year are accepted.  Last week she received a letter to say that she had been successful in her application – and on the next day another letter to say she must go into a sanatorium for a six-month rest cure.

Shirley, 18-year-old twin daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. Hampshire of 36 Byron Road, Mexborough, took a pre-nursing course at Mexborough Schofield College, where she was school captain. She left last summer. While waiting to go to the school of radiography, she followed the example of her elder sister, Margaret a nurse at Sheffield Royal Hospital, by joining the staff of the County Hospital, York.

On Wednesday she entered Wharfedale Sanatorium for a complete rest. Now she is building her hopes on the school taking her sometime in the future.