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2 unusual facts about Papworth Hospital


Precious McKenzie

Half Man Half Biscuit pondered his later years in the song 'I Left My Heart In Papworth General' -- Precious McKenzie, boy I remember you well... with a gob full of tapioca I would sit and I'd watch you excel, those legendary rivulets would trickle on down to your chin, but I always wondered what you did when you packed it all in...

Vicky Ford

She studied maths and economics at Trinity College, Cambridge, where she met her husband Hugo Ford, a cancer consultant at Addenbrookes, West Suffolk and Papworth Hospital, and they have three children.


Reuben Goldstein Edwards

Related to the death of their first child at a young age, to whom they erected an elaborate memorial in Golders Green Jewish Cemetery, they founded the Edith Edward's Preventorium at Papworth Hospital, Cambridgeshire, for the treatment of tuberculosis.


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