Here at Lacies shop and fantasyshopping we are delighted to introduce you to our new ground breaking local history book written by owner Sue Sheppard. Its called INFECTED FOLKESTONE
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GROUND BREAKING NEW BOOK
How a long forgotten hospital sheds new
light on Folkestone’s Victorian Heyday.
THE PLOT : The true story of how a town’s fortunes became interwined with that of its ‘infectious disease’ hospital, known locally as the Sanatorium.
THE FEAR: just one more bout of infectious disease could ruin Folkestones’ reputation as a elite watering hole.They needed somewhere to isolate visitors suffering from infectious disease.
THE HEROINES: The Sanatorium was run by ‘career’ Fever Nurses;
women, who put their entire lives on the line to save, initially the life of wealthy visitors and later the ordinary poor people living in the towns slums.
