Records relating to Robert Dinwiddie Printers

Samples of items printed for Crichton Royal Hospital including: 1) Receipt for Dumfries and District Lunacy Board (printed by James Maxwell & Sons, but with R. Dinwiddie & Co. stamp on reverse), c.1918 2) Order of Service for Crichton Memorial Church, 1947 3) Two hospital brochures, c.1940s-1950s 4) Seven sample pages from registers and volumes with order information written on them. Samples include pages from Matron's Patient Book Women, Stores Ledger, Stores Supply Ledger, Assistant Matron's Night Report, Admission Book, Stores Petty Cash Book and Bakers Conversion Book. 5) Single foolscap page - Newspapers and Magazines, Crichton Royal in Account with Robert Dinwiddie & Co. Ltd., Dumfries, listing titles of daily, weekly, bi-weekly and monthly newspapers and magazines with costs and quantities and total amount, December 1972.

c.1918-1972

12 documents

Diwiddies was a local printing firm, located on Dumfries High Street, which succeeded James Maxwell & Sons in 1920 as printers for Crichton Royal Institution. Some of these sample pages are from volumes which have not survived such as the Matron's Patient Book and Assistant Matron's Night Report.

Enquiries for reproduction for commercial purposes should be directed to the Archivist, Dumfries and Galloway Archives and Local Studies

The papers are available at Dumfries and Galloway Archives subject to conditions of UK Data Protection Act 1998, Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 and NHS Records Management Code of Practice 2012. Subject to these restrictions, this material is being digitised by the University of Glasgow as part of a Wellcome Trust funded project. Material that is digitised will be accessed freely online through the Wellcome Library catalogue.