Seven O’clock and not a Baby Bathed: The Story of a Lambeth Midwife

Robert Holden tells the story of his Grandmother. A Lambeth midwife.
Elizabeth Matilda Halston (nee Dunkley) trained as a midwife in the 1920s, and embarked on a career that was to last nearly 25 years. This culminated in seven years as a domiciliary midwife with the London County Council when, in the most difficult and dangerous circumstances of war-torn Lambeth and Wandsworth, she delivered hundreds of babies to women in their own homes. This included my sister, my cousin and me. She was an unsung hero of the Second World War, an ordinary woman who made an extraordinary contribution to the community in which she lived. This illustrated lecture is a celebration of her life and work.

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