Founded in 1725, it has stood at the heart of the London Bridge neighbourhood for three centuries, and this May, the anniversary is being marked with a week of events including a Service of Thanksgiving at Southwark Cathedral, a Clinical Academic Symposium, and a Gala Dinner. Team London Bridge is proud to be part of the community celebrations marking this extraordinary milestone.

Across Tuesday 5th to Thursday 7th May, the Guy’s 300 Community Programme opens the campus to everyone, with exhibitions, live clinical demonstrations, public talks, and creative work exploring how care, science and community intertwine. We’ve been working with the Guy’s team to weave our own contribution into that programme.

The Poetry Takeaway van will be on Collingwood Street on Tuesday and Thursday, with poets taking commissions from passers-by, turning the everyday into something worth keeping.

On Thursday morning, we’re taking 90 local secondary school students to the Old Operating Theatre Museum, one of the most astonishing spaces in London and a direct window into the surgical world that existed on this site long before anaesthesia. We’re covering every ticket, and we’ll be there to walk them through the doors.

At 12.30pm, Blue Badge Guide Sarah Williams-Robbins (Mrs Londoner) leads an excerpt of our In Sickness and in Health Guided Walk, tracing 300 years of medical history through the streets most of us cross every day without a second thought.

And as the afternoon draws in, we’ll gather with our Medi-Culture partners, including the Florence Nightingale Museum, the Old Operating Theatre team, and others who help keep this history alive, for a Afternoon Tea Reception in the Guy’s Front Quad Marquee following the Service of Thanksgiving at Southwark Cathedral.

Find out more about Guy’s Hospital 300 Anniversary Celebrations here.