The Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital opened on the Norwich Research Park site in 2001, replacing the old site on St Stephen's Road, which had been founded some 230 years earlier in 1771.
At that time, Norwich had the highest rate of bladder stones in the country. The hospital became a centre of excellence for lithotomy and for the treatment of bladder stones.
For around 140 years between 1770s and the early 20th century, the surgeons here at the N&N conducted about 1500 operations in the removal of bladder stones – and they kept every single one.
The world's largest and most extraordinary bladder stone collection remains at the N&N today. Every specimen is labelled with the patient's name, the date and the name of the surgeon.
Throughout the nineteenth century, Norwich maintained its reputation as world leaders in bladder stones until the early twentieth century when the Norfolk outbreak of bladder stones seemed to end.
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