Life Of A Student Nurse -- In the peace and quiet of her own room, Nurse Hopkins sits down to write a letter home to her people at Castleford, Yorkshire. The room is not large but it is comfortable. It has inbuilt wardrobe, desk, desk, many drawers, hot-and-cold water, a full-length mirror, a good bed, table and chairs, The Nurses' Home where 450 nurses sleep is in fact like a well equipped and well-run hotel, with lots of bathrooms and even a swimming pool of its own. December 10, 1952. (Photo by Tom Blau, Camera Press).