History Society Meeting

Audlem History Society Talk March, 2025 Ros Urwin:

The Amazing Johnny G : the man who built faces. The History Society talk for March, 2025 will be held as usual in the Scout and Guide Hall, on Thursday, 20th March at 7.30pm. Johnny G., (as he was known by the nurses), real name John Grocott, was a plastic surgeon from Fenton.

He ran the plastic surgery department of the North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary single-handedly by the outbreak of the Second World War.
Ros Urwin is the author of several books on Staffordshire history, including Unsung Heroes of Wartime Stoke and How Plastic Surgery came to the North Staffordshire Infirmary .

This will be a talk with a difference, and all are welcome. Visitors please pay £4 on the door.