| Year |
Day |
National Event |
Local Event |
| 1857 |
28th June |
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Robert Jones is born in Rhyl, North Wales |
| 1867 |
31st December |
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Agnes Gwendoline Hunt is born at Boreatton Park, Baschurch, Shropshire |
| 1887 |
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Agnes Hunt begins her training as a nurse at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Rhyl |
| 1891 |
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Agnes Hunt qualifies as a nurse at the Salop Infirmary in Shrewsbury |
| 1900 |
1st October |
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Florence House in Baschurch, is opened by Agnes Hunt and Emily Goodford, as a convalescent home for children |
| 1903 |
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Agnes Hunt visits the surgeon, Robert Jones, in Liverpool with the pain and discomfort that she is experiencing in her hip |
| 1904 |
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Robert Jones becomes the Honorary Surgeon at Agnes's Baschurch Convalescent Home for Children |
| 1907 |
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An operating theatre is built at the Baschurch Convalescent Home |
| 1913 |
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X-Ray facilities are installed at the Baschurch Home |
| 1914 |
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The First World War begins |
Agnes's Baschurch Convalescent Home is asked to act as Rest Home for wounded soldiers |
| 1916 |
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Florence House at Baschurch is now full of wounded soldiers and later in 1916, becomes an auxiliary military hospital |
| 1917 |
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Robert Jones receives a knighthood for his work in Orthopaedics |
| 1918 |
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The First World War ends |
Agnes Hunt receives the Royal Red Cross and the After Care scheme for patients of the Home is officially launched |
| 1920 |
21st February |
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Agnes Hunt's good friend and the co-founder of the Baschurch Home, Emily 'Goody' Goodford dies |
| 1920 |
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The first patients are transferred from the Baschurch Home, to a new hospital formerly Park Hall Military Hospital, near Oswestry |
| 1921 |
5th August |
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The new hospital is officially opened and called, 'The Shropshire Orthopaedic Hospital' |
| 1926 |
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Agnes Hunt is made a Dame Commander of the British Empire |
| 1927 |
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The Derwen Cripples' Training College is founded |
| 1928 |
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Agnes Hunt retires from nursing due to health problems |
| 1933 |
14th January |
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Sir Robert Jones dies, aged 75. The hospital is subsequently renamed as 'The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital' |
| 1939 |
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The Second World War begins |
The hospital is registered under the Ministry of Health Emergency Medical Service and begins to admit military patients |
| 1944 |
June |
Normandy Landings |
The hospital sees an increase in the number of soldiers it is treating, particularly in the days and weeks after the Normandy landings |
| 1945 |
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The Second World War ends |
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| 1948 |
January |
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A fire breaks out in the Dispensary department and large section of the hospital is destroyed |
| 1948 |
5th July |
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The hospital is incorporated into the NHS |
| 1948 |
24th July |
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Dame Agnes Hunt dies aged 80 |
| 1948 |
September-November |
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A typhoid outbreak hits the hospital's patients and staff. 7 people die |
| 1952 |
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Four new wards are opened at the hospital, to replace those damaged by the fire in 1948 |
| 1961 |
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The hospital's League of Friends is founded |
| 1966 |
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The Midland Centre for Spinal Injuries is established at the hospital |
| 1971 |
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The Institute of Orthopaedics is opened |
| 1978 |
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The first Professor of Orthopaedics based at Oswestry is appointed |
| 1987 |
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The official opening of the Centre for Spinal Studies is held |
| 1991 |
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£7 million operating theatres and ward block are completed |
| 1994 |
1st April |
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The hospital becomes a self-governing National Health Service Trust |
| 1996 |
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The Leopold Muller Arthritis Research Centre is opened |
| 2000 |
1st October |
|
The hospital celebrates the centenary of its foundation |
