Photograph of Florence Nightingale’s original Crimean war carriage, 1905. Catalogue ref: COPY 1/489 (f130)
During the Crimean War, the London Illustrated News published a picture of Florence Nightingale in a curtained horse drawn carriage which she used when inspecting military hospitals in the Crimea. It was said to be nicknamed ‘Florrie’s Lorry’. Models of the carriage were made and bought by her many admirers at home. The original carriage was returned to Britain and given to the Nightingale Training School for Nurses at St Thomas’s Hospital. It now is on display at the home of Florence’s sister, Claydon House.
- Why do you think Florence inspected the hospitals in the Crimea?
- Why do you think she continued do this as part of her work?
- What would it have been like to travel in this carriage?