The NHS is one of the largest organisations in the world and Newbury woman Carol Irlam gave decades of her life to it. Mrs Irlam has retired after 50 years of service as a nurse. And she still remembers her first days on the job. She was born in Newbury but moved to London at the age of 18 to complete her training. She had to live in for six months and was under a 12am curfew – with a home sister who would tick her colleagues in and out. And she says times were different with her first pay packet being £47 and her rent at £22. And when the nurses went on their drug rounds, they gave patients t…