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Hospital

Bristol Maternity Hospital

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Details

Previous Names
Temporary Home for Young Girls Who Have Gone Astray (1865 - 1903)
Temporary Home and Lying-In Hospital (1903 reference)
Bristol Maternity Hospital and Temporary Home (by 1929 - ?)
Bristol Lying-In Hospital (by 1948 - ?)
(Queen Victoria House) (1950 - 1975)
Address
St Michael's Hill, Bristol, BS2 8EG
Previous Locations
9, Alfred Place (1865 - 1871)
50, Southwell Street (1871 - c.1940)
78, St Michael's Hill (1940s)
Transferred to premises of Queen Victoria Jubilee Convalescent Home, Blackboy Hill, Dudham Down (1950 - 1975)
Foundation Year
1865
Status
Closed

Administrative Authorities

Regional Board (1948-1974)
Provinces (Teaching)
Management Committee (1948-1974)
United Bristol
Regional Authority (1974-1982)
South Western
Regional Authority (Post-1982)
South Western
District Authority (1974-1982)
Bristol (Teaching)
District Authority (Post-1982)
Bristol and Weston
Pre-1974 County
Bristol
Post-1974 County
Avon
Post-1996 County
Bristol

Status

Pre-1948
Local Authority, Voluntary
Pre-1948 information
LA: 1946 - 1948.
Post-1948
NHS

Type

Pre-1948
Maternity
Post-1948
Maternity

Other information

Administration taken over by the Royal Hospital, 1946. According to a pamphlet published in 1961 by the United Bristol Hospitals Board of Governors, the names and places read as follows: 1865 - 1894 The Temporary Home 1894 - 1914 The Temporary Home and Lying - In Hospital 1914 - 1939 The Bristol Maternity Hospital and Temporary Home 1939 - The Bristol Maternity Hospital

Record locations

  • Bristol Record Office

    Record types

    Administrative
    1864 - 1948
    General
    1864 - 1948
    Finance
    1912 - 1942
    Admission
    1875 - 1939
    Clinical
    1928 - 1947
    Ephemera
    1926 - 1926

    Finding aids

    Finding aids
    Catalogue
    Location
    At Repository (AR), National Register of Archives (NRA)
    Records include a register of adoptions 1918-1924.