The original Addenbrooke’s Hospital finally closed its doors on 31 October 1984. There were 28 patients to move on that day and last was a young Cambridge man who left the ‘Old Site’ at 12.15p.m. Addenbrooke’s Hospital was founded with a legacy of £4,500 from Dr John Addenbrooke in 1719 and opened it doors in …
Month: October 2017
Birds in the Wards
Every now and then we have cause to complain about services received or a situation we find ourselves in. While doing some research for someone I came across a letter of complaint copied into the Minutes of the Board of Governors dated 5 June 1886: ‘I have been informed by a person who was very …
Addenbrooke’s in Literature
I like reading books that are set in my local area and enjoy the author’s description of a place I know well. I came across this in The United Cambridge Hospitals 16th Annual Report for 1966-1967: “Visitors to Cambridge who have read E M Forster’s novel ‘The Longest Journey’ will find that Addenbrooke’s Hospital is …
Patient Case notes
The Hospital Archives holds over 70 years of paper patient cases notes dating from 1876. The notes contain some interesting information about the people who were patients admitted to Addenbrooke’s in the last quarter of the 19th and first half of the 20th centuries. The example shown is of a 47 year old man who …
Addenbrooke’s Hospital Archives
The Hospital Archives was established in the mid 1980’s, with an honorary archivist delivering the service at Cambridge University Hospitals. The Archives receives core funding from Addenbrooke’s Charitable Trust and has one permanent part-time professional member of staff. Introduction The records of Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and its predecessors and constituent bodies which …
