Nigel's聽infant lower聽half modelled his mother's invention - the disposable nappy |
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Nappy days
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Last week Moo Morris-Jones told the story of how聽she came up with the idea of disposable nappies while holed up with her baby son in a small Cornish village. Was she the inventor, we wondered?
This week,聽Nigel, the son of the true inventor phoned us to put us聽right. It was his mother,聽Valerie Hunter Gordon, who had invented the first disposable nappy -聽the Paddi Pad.聽
Valerie and her husband Patrick, a Lieutenant Colonel with the Royal Engineers, were the proud parents of six children. Child number three, Nigel, was聽born in 1947. He had a starring role in his mother's invention which began to be marketed in earnest in the late 1940s.聽His infant聽lower half聽(see the picture)聽modelled the聽nappy in the first newspaper advert.聽
Valerie, now aged 83, and Nigel,聽talk to David about the invention聽no parent would be without.
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