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A view of Wakatu Lodge showing the older section, which was once a house owned by the Harley family, and the recently built accommodation block

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Ninety-year-old Miss Florence Knight, shown here with Sister Enright, has had a colourful career which included a nine-year-stint in Japan, where Miss Knight worked with an English family and also the Shell Oil Co. Miss Knight survived the great earthquake in the early 1900s which reduced Yokohama to rubble.

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The entrance to the modern accommodation block. Coming down the stairs is Sister R. Heslop. We werelucky to get a photo of Sister Heslop because she was continually in a hurry.

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Relaxing in the sun are Mesdames I. M. Armstrong (84), F. K. Sugden (89), M. Cobeldick (85), and Messrs E. Norton (73) and Happy Lyford (71). With them is Sister Mrs A. Royle

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And sitting wrapped in blankets beside a heater is a good way to keep warm: Mrs B. McGirr (75) and Mrs E. McNeil(86).

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Mrs Sugden's main hobby is her indoor plants, which she carefully tends. Admiring the pampered plants is Sister Royle. Mrs Sugden was a nurse in the First World War and served in Egypt, England and on hospital ships

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Mrs Eva Sanders (89) appears to be in capable hands here. Nurse Carol Delany and medical orderly Tony Wright spare a moment for the camera. Mrs Sanders and her late husband, a lighthouse keeper, were stationed on lonely lighthouses from Cape Reinga to Dog Island.

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Mrs G. Bell (84) has an association with Wakatu Lodge which spans many years. Her sister. Bertha Jennings, was a maid in the house when it belonged to the Harley family. With Mrs Bell is Sister Enright.