43.895 acres of a site on Hills Road was purchased for £4,350 from the Pemberton Trustees.

First digging of the site.

Slowly, the buildings go up for the first tenants, Addenbrooke’s hospital and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB).

The first six patients were admitted to the New Addenbrooke’s Hospital on Hills Road.

First operation Addenbrooke’s Hills Road site 1961.

The Queen officially opens Addenbrooke’s hospital.

Stage 1 of the new hospital in 1964 showing on the right the ward block of 100 beds for Neurology and Neurosurgery and Orthopaedics; on the left the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology building and the University Department of Radiotherapeutics. In front is the small residency and dining room and just visible is part of the Outpatients Department.

The original MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) building, with a Morris 1100 parked outside and a caravan shop.

HRH The Duke of Edinburgh and Chancellor of the University of Cambridge officially opens its School of Clinical Medicine Building.

The Rosie maternity hospital opens.

The last patient is moved from old Addenbrooke’s in the city.

From the air.

Addenbrooke’s Hospital, and the Rosie and Fulbourn Hospitals formed the Addenbrooke’s NHS Trust Hospitals. Fulbourn Hospital left the Trust in 2002 to become part of a new Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust.

The Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute opens beside Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

You’ll notice a theme here. Her Majesty the Queen opened many great buildings on the Campus.

Work starts on the new MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) building.

The MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) moved into its current, purpose-built building, which has been specifically designed to provide the right environment in which innovative medical research, translation and collaboration can flourish. Costing £212 million − paid for in part from the royalties derived from antibody-related work conducted at the LMB − the building provides first class facilities to some of the world’s leading scientists.

Royal Papworth Hospital moves into its new home on the Campus and is opened by…..the Queen.

The Heart and Lung Research Institute opens next to Royal Papworth. It is the largest concentration of heart and lung researchers under one roof in Europe.

The official go-ahead for a new railway station on Campus.

The Biomedical Campus today.