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 …
Month: July 2019
Hospital Administrator 3
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; …
Hospital Administrator 2
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 …
Hospital Administrator
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 …
