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Month: July 2019

Using the Archives

On July 25, 2019July 11, 2019 By addenbrookesarchiveLeave a comment

Some of the records held in the Hospital Archives can be used for Family History, but how do people find if their ancestor has been a patient in the Hospital?  One way is from reports in local newspapers such as this one in The Cambridge Independent Press of Friday 29 Dec 1916: I found the entry …

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Hospital Administrator 3

On July 18, 2019May 29, 2019 By addenbrookesarchiveLeave a comment

This is third and final instalment of the memories of a former Hospital Administrator of Addenbrooke's Hospital. Over the next three weeks I am going to share with you the memories of a former Hospital Administrator of Addenbrooke's Hospital. As regards the building itself, the airiness and sense of space was most attractive to everybody; …

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Hospital Administrator 2

On July 11, 2019May 29, 2019 By addenbrookesarchiveLeave a comment

This is the second instalment of  the memories of a former Hospital Administrator of Addenbrooke's Hospital. The great consultant at the hospital was Walpole Lewin, an internationally famous neurosurgeon who had made his name in the Western Desert in World War 2, and was poached from the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford.  He may have been tempted …

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Hospital Administrator

On July 4, 2019May 29, 2019 By addenbrookesarchive1 Comment

Over the next three weeks I am going to share with you the memories of a former Hospital Administrator of Addenbrooke's Hospital. In 1964 when I went there, the New Site (as we always called it) was one of the very few new hospital buildings of the NHS, which was still in its infancy.  Capital …

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