Wartime day nurseries: Battling on

Nursery nurses played a vital role in the war effort and had a lot of fun doing it, as Dorothy Brown and Eileen Adey recall When thinking of women and their important roles during the Second World War, those who worked as nursery nurses in wartime day nurseries are often overlooked. But like today, when childcarers are central to the Government's aim to get parents back to work, during the war nursery nurses were...