Archive Showcase
The archival legacy for the institution that began as the Cambridgeshire Tuberculosis Colony, blossomed into the Papworth Village Settlement, and which, in the Papworth NHS Hospital and Papworth Trust, have matured into leading healthcare institutions within the distinct fields of cardiac care and disability training, is an extensive one.
Below is a small selection of over 1,000 images of documents and photographs in the collections of Cambridgeshire Archives Service that have been digitised by the Papworth Archives Project on grounds of identified conservation need or for their significance in the history of the Settlement. Please click on a thumbnail to see a larger image.
A CD containing copies of the introductory material and lists of the archives as on this website, as well as 464 digital images of original photographs and documents and extracts from five oral history interviews, is now available price £8.99 from Cambridgeshire Archives Service and from Papworth Library. It is also available by post, price £10.00 inclusive of inland postage and packaging; please send a cheque payable to Cambridgeshire County Council to Cambridgeshire Archives Service (full address in the right hand column of this page).
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Papworth Hall, 1911 |
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Papworth Village Settlement appeal brochure 1928 |
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Page from the appeal brochure of 1928 |
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Aerial view of Papworth Village Settlement, c.1935 |
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Shelters in South Park, Papworth Hall, c.1925-30 |
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Hospital ward in the Hall, c.1920 |
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X-ray examination, c.1935 |
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Balcony of the Princess Hospital c.1932 |
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S.P. pump appliances ("Green Goddesses") being built in the Coach-building Dept, Papworth Industries, 1957 |
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Carpentry Dept at the Hall, building shelters, c.1920 |
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Upholstery Dept, Papworth Industries, 1953 |
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Shelters in the first Cambridgeshire Tuberculosis Colony, Bourn 1916 |
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Lieut.-Col. (Professor, later Sir) G. Sims Woodhead, Varrier-Jones' mentor, c.1914-18 |
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Dr D. MacCallum performing pneumothorax procedure c.1939-45 |
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Queen Mary visiting the Colony, with Varrier-Jones, 1918 |
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Pendrill Varrier-Jones in the University Pathological Laboratory 1913 |
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The new surgical unit, depicted in the 1935 Annual Report |
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Draft report on Bourn Colony by Elspeth Dimsdale, with amendments by Varrier-Jones 1915 |