ID22439
Reference
Description

Royal Hospital Saturday Scheme Reports (bound, printed volumes):

1902-1904

1905-1915

1916-1923

1924-1930

1930-1934

1934-1939

1940-1942

These reports detail the subscribers to a yearly street collection to raise funds for Belfast Royal Hospital and list many women who not only subscribed to the fund, but who also acted as superintendents collecting subscriptions. For example, the 1902 report lists Miss Parsons of the Girls' Friendly Society and Mrs Weatherup as collecting for the May Street, Belfast and Arthur Street, Belfast and for the Bank Buildings, Belfast and Ulster Club, Belfast, respectively.

AccessBy prior appointment, some restrictions may apply.
Date1902-1942
Century 20th
Keywords
Note

Useful publications are R.S.J. Clarke, The Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast: A History, 1797-1997 (Belfast, 1997) and Peggy Donaldson, Yes Matron - A History of Nurses and Nursing at the Royal Victoria Hospital (Belfast, 1988).

Repository NameRoyal Victoria Hospital, Belfast
AddressPublic Record Office of Northern Ireland 2 Titanic Boulevard Titanic Quarter Belfast
UK Postal CodeBT3 9HQ
Telephone+44 28-9053-4800
Email Addressproni@communities-ni.gov.uk
Repository Web Addresshttps://www.nidirect.gov.uk/campaigns/public-record-office-n...
CommentStaff of the Women's History Project constructed an outline list of the material held in this repository. Due to time constraints not all items in this repository were examined individually. The records of the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, are now held in PRONI.
latitude54.60430
longitude-5.91036