(Rare!) Voice of Florence Nightingale (1890)

Fake. That's Anne Widdecombe.

"Of balaclava" is in reference not to nurses caps, but to the Battle of Balaclava in the crimean war, of the 1850s,where she first practised her nursing in the field. her cmrades are her fellow workers and friends of that time, and a hope that they will safely arrive home most likely figurativly as in "heavens shores", a sort of Godspeed to old friends.

Her hope came true...

Thanks! Her voice is so pleasant, as her life. It was a great idea in those old times, to keep if for the future.

This is simply GREAT!. Thanks a lot for uploading.

my great grandmother was named after florence nightingale! and she is still alive :D

Wow cool find. Flo sounds like a friggin banshee when she says 'I' - funny stuff.

where i can have a copy of this..
reply.asap plzz..

when she says "I" very loud xD

I find that the sound on this one is almost unitelligable: but of course, that's due to its age!