Did you know…? Salisbury Healthcare History

Colour aerial photograph showing large red brick house and town lawns

Hillcote House

Two pastel portraits by Margaret King

Cover of the black list book

19th-Century Medical Discipline

Colour photograph of a blue table with science equipment and microscope images

British Science Week 2025

Colour photograph of Egyptian coffin in museum display

Why is there an Egyptian mummy in our archives?

'Infirmary supported by voluntary contribution' inscription

Infirmary Inscription family history

Colour illustration of yellow octopus named oddie with hat

Oddie the octopus

Black and white postcard view of Salisbury Clock Tower

Clock Tower

montage of MRI scanner being delivered, healthcare library background outline of books

Windows into history

Printed advert Moore Bros shoe shop Salisbury, 'call and be correctly fitted by our x-ray machine'

X-ray shoe fitting!

Painting showing a lioness attacking horses of mail coach outside a pub

Lion attack near Salisbury – 1816

Gordon Richards being carried on stretcher towards back of ambulance

‘World’s greatest jockey’ treated at Salisbury Infirmary

Letter written from Winston Churchill to Lord Radnor dated 1910

Letter from Winston Churchill

line drawing showing woman wearing heels standing with feet together, arrows highlight areas of strain

Housework with ease

Patients in beds or wheelchairs with nurses attending

The Grey Lady

Oak panel arch shape with hand written lettering of Lord's prayer

Unusual finds – chapel panels

Hospital building on 5 levels, steps leading to covered porch entrance

Rowan General Hospital

clear glass bottles and green and blue hexagonal glass bottles with stoppers

Is it poisonous?

Drawing of Infirmary after conservation

Conservation of Salisbury Infirmary drawing

Stonehenge connection