Sub-fonds
Luton and Dunstable Hospital Archive
Catalogue reference: HO:L
What’s it about?
This record is about the Luton and Dunstable Hospital Archive.
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Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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HO:L
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Title (The name of the record)
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Luton and Dunstable Hospital Archive
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Description (What the record is about)
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The archive deposited covers all three Hospitals. Photographs of the Spittlesea Isolation Hospital and Luton Maternity Home, Napier Road are also included.
A substantial part of the archive relates to nursing training at the Hospital from the 1940s to the 1970s. A useful set of photographs of maternity nurses in a labour ward in c1960 is included.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- Bedfordshire Archives & Records Service
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- <corpname>Luton and Dunstable Hospital</corpname>
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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Acc No 7139
Acc No 7264
Deposited at the Record Office by Margaret Currie on 12 May 1992 and 25 January 1993
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Luton and Dunstable was opened on 14 February 1939 and replaced the Bute Hospital (opened on 27 September 1882). The Bute in its turn replaced the Luton Cottage Hospital, which had opened 6 May 1872.
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- <span class="wrapper"><p>A detailed history of the Hospital using the archive and other sources has been published. It is entitled</p> <p>"Hospitals in Luton and Dunstable: An Illustrated History by Margaret R Currie SRN, RCNT. It was published in 1982. A copy is available in the searchroom (Classification 150) and is essential reading for anyone using the archive.</p></span>
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/3726d543-81ce-4056-83db-700bbaec34d0/
Catalogue hierarchy
This record is held at Bedfordshire Archives & Records Service
Within the fonds: HO
Hospital Records
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Luton and Dunstable Hospital Archive