This is part of a blog written by the Archivist at the Royal Voluntary Service. If you follow this link From passage way to modern canteen: The history of Addenbrooke’s and Royal Voluntary Service you will be able to read the whole article. On 23 August 2017 the Tea & Co. Café at …
Month: December 2017
Christmas at the Old Site
With Christmas coming I thought I would have a look to see if there was mention of any arrangements for Christmas celebrations in the minute books of the Hospital Governors. The minutes of the meeting of 20 Dec 1871 recorded that not more that 2 dozen bottles of wine could be ordered for servants and …
30 years of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) at Addenbrooke’s
A group of townspeople decided in 1979 to raise money for a CT Scanner for Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge. By 1981 they had reached their target of £1million and were thrilled when the first Scanning Unit was opened by HRH The Prince of Wales in July 1981. The appeal was so successful that there was surplus …
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Dr David Evans Ward
In early December 2015 the Dialysis Unit moved from the Addenbrooke’s Hills Road site to its new premises off Newmarket Road. The original Dialysis Unit moved from Douglas House to Hills Road in early June 1990 and was official opened on 16 June 1990 by Jeffrey and Dr Mary Archer. In November 1997 a new …
Animating the Archives
Last year Addenbrooke’s Hospital celebrated its 250th anniversary and as part of the celebrations we decided to develop a new museum space at the Hospital and also to run a series of associated community engagement events around the hospital archives through the year. I hold a large and significant collection of instruments and artefacts, but …
