At the Coalface: The memoir of a pit nurse

by Veronica Clark and Joan Hart

Book Overview

A heart-warming story of a woman who devoted her life to helping others. This is the memoir of Joan, who started nursing in the 1940s and whose experiences took her into the Yorkshire mining pits and through the tumult of the 1984-85 miners' strike.

Joan Hart always knew what she wanted to do with her life. Born in South Yorkshire in 1932, she started her nursing training when she was 16, the youngest age girls could do so at the time. She...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0007596162
• ISBN13: 9780007596164
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Harper Element
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 7.8"