Royal Orthopaedic Hospital Birmingham Appeal

A photograph of the front of a leaflet. The middle of the leaflet has a black and white drawing of a building surrounded by trees and bushes. Above this, in bold grey text, reads "Research And Teaching Centre". Below the drawing, in bold grey text, reads "Appeal by The League of Friends; The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital Birmingham". At the top left of the page, in faint pencil, is the archive reference.
Image courtesy of The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital (Birmingham Archives and Heritage HC/RO/C/6/5/6).

Established in 1817, the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital in Birmingham is the oldest orthopaedic hospital in Britain.

It launched this appeal in 1984 to raise £500,000 to build and fully equip a Research and Teaching Centre. In this leaflet, the Patron of the appeal (the Marques of Hertford) described the hospital as a “very worthy cause”, and appealed for “kindness and generosity”.

The leaflet also contained a plan of the building proposed and a description of the research and teaching activities it would support.

Readers of the leaflet were encouraged to donate by bank order or by cash.