About this objectA drawing by Annette Garfitt, "A Pinkie".
Drawn while on Night Duty at St Thomas's Hospital, 07/01/1939.
Pinkies were cleaners and so called because they wore pink dresses. Many of them were local people from Lambeth and from generations of the same families. They used to strew the polished floors of the hospital with tea-leaves to pick up the dust.
