Description:Midwife Elsie Goodwin holding baby George Marston at a Tree Planting at Weston in 1935, celebrating George V's Silver Jubilee. On the right is Mrs Deville.
Elsie Goodwin was born at 11 Chapel lane, Burslem in 1908. She trained as a nurse at the Royal Hospital, Wolverhampton in 1930-1931, and then as a midwife.
After qualifying she worked as a midwife and health visitor in the Tipton and Dudley Port district of the Black Country. In 1934 she moved to Rose Cottage, Hixon, and worked around Stowe-by-Chartley, Weston, Sandon and Hixon, and later around Rocester, Denstone and Stubwood. She travelled by bicycle.
She gave up her work when she married, becoming Elsie Morris, in January 1939.