This collection of images gives an insight into the first days of the Kolling Institute and some of the key people who helped ensure its success.
By 1929, the small cottage Oakleigh was not large enough for the expanding service. On one occasion Eva Kolling OBE, who was already a generous benefactor of the hospital, was visiting Royal North Shore Hospital. Director Wilson Ingram took the opportunity to give her a tour of the laboratories highlighting that although great work was being done, there was a distinct lack of space. Mrs Kolling was very impressed and pledged a sum of money, matched by the NSW Government to build laboratories as a memorial to her husband Charles Kolling. In September 1931, Eva Kolling turned the key in the lock of the new Charles Kolling Memorial Laboratory in the presence of the Chief Justice and Lady Street, Judge Thomson, President of the hospital and about 1000 local residents. This two-storey building was then state of the art.
Images and historical content: Archive and Heritage Collection, Royal North Shore Hospital, with kind permission
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KOLLINGNEWS | DECEMBER 2020
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