Cambridgeshire County Record Office, Cambridge
Record types
- Administrative
- 1876 - 1956
- Staff
- 1927 - 1948
- Admission
- 1876 - 1956
Finding aids
- Finding aids
- Brief guide (BG)
- Location
- At Repository (AR), National Register of Archives (NRA)
Hospital
Tower Hospital
Last updated .
Important information
Information about this hospital might be outdated.
Details
- Previous Names
- Ely Union Workhouse (1837 - c.1912)
- Ely Poor Law Institution (c.1912 - c.1930)
- Ely Institution (c.1930 - 1948)
- Tower House Hospital (1948 - 1953)
- Address
- Cambridge Road, Ely, CB7 4HP
- Current Trust
- Lifespan NHS Trust (since 1992)
- Foundation Year
- 1837
- Status
- Closed (since 1993)
Administrative Authorities
- Regional Board (1948-1974)
- East Anglian
- Management Committee (1948-1974)
- Papworth-Huntingdon
- Regional Authority (1974-1982)
- East Anglian
- Regional Authority (Post-1982)
- East Anglian
- District Authority (1974-1982)
- Cambridge (Teaching)
- District Authority (Post-1982)
- Cambridge
- Pre-1974 County
- Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely
- Post-1974 County
- Cambridgeshire
- Post-1996 County
- Cambridgeshire
Status
- Pre-1948
- Local Authority, Poor Law
- Pre-1948 information
- PLI: 1837 - 1930.
- LA: 1930 - 1948.
- Post-1948
- NHS
Type
- Pre-1948
- General
- Post-1948
- Geriatric, Mental, Other
Other information
See also St John's Hospital, Ely. Cottages Hospital on site for elderly mentally infirm administered by Fulbourn Hospital. Hospital functions transferred to Princess of Wales Hospital, Ely on closure 1993. Remaining former workhouse buildings demolished and site sold for housing development.