Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
Archive and Special Collections
Faithful Stripes
In 1915 George Sprittles was called up and stationed at the 2nd Northern General Hospital where he worked as a hospital orderly, by the time he left in 1919 George had reached the rank of sergeant.
He left us a marvelous legacy in the form of a scrapbook of photographs recording the hospital environment, staff and patients. The scrapbook marks a remarkable continuity with our University buildings at Beckett Park, our Headingley Campus. The book was handed to his niece, a lecturer in history at the City of Leeds Training College, who used it in her teaching practice. Subsequently she passed it on to a teaching colleague who on his retirement gifted the scrapbook to our Archive and Special Collections. In later life George Sprittles became Canon at Southwell Cathedral.
