[Margaret Pilkington]

I can remember trying to trim up a very large Nightingale Ward for Christmas....and was bemoaning the fact that we never had enough money to buy quality(and therefore longer lasting decorations, one of the tutors from the School of Nursing was up on the ward seeing a student, she mentioned B&M's and we went.
That year we had the best looking, best trimmed ward in the whole of the hospital.
We were dead chuffed.......to have done the decorating on our meagre budget.

That must be over 20 years ago now...so they definitely aren't a 'flash in the pan'