About the Collection
Mr. George Marshall
George Marshall was a pleasant, softly spoken Scot who came to Worcester in 1931 as a GP. He originally took up General Practice in Worcester on the Tything, but became Consultant Surgeon to the Infirmary with the introduction of the NHS in 1948. Mr. Marshall continued in General Practice until 1950. He was an ethusiastic collector of old medical and surgical equipment and by his retirement he had accumulated a large and varied collection of several thousand objects (the bulk of our entire collection today). He generously presented his collection to the Postgraduate Education Centre at Ronkswood in Worcester in the 1970s and the collection was moved in 2002 when the new education centre was built at the Worcester Royal Hospital site on Newtown Road. The Charles Hastings Education Centre now houses and owns the collection, which is currently managed by one Curator and by a team of highly dedicated volunteers.
Collection Highlights
the Apothecary's Shop
Blossom's Horns
Operating Chair
The Operating Theatre
Oral Histories
Rare Books and Archives
Selected star objects from the collection can be viewed in our timeline in the Interactives section of this website. These are some of our favourite objects (though by no means all!), and were chosen highlight several key events in the development of Western medicine in the last 300 years.