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Florence Nightingale brown plaque

Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom

Florence Nightingale brown plaque

Florence Nightingale. Florence Nightingale visited Harrogate in 1852, in company with her aunt, staying in this York Place house then occupied by Mrs Wright's lodgings. She went on to improve the wretched hospital conditions of British soldiers in the Crimea, reform medical and sanitary standards an

d raise the quality and status of nursing.

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