Description: Nottingham General Hospital was founded as a charitable institution by public subscription in 1782, on 2 acres of land donated by the Duke of Newcastle and the Nottingham Corporation. Following the opening of The Queen's Medical Centre in 1977, many services were transferred there from the General. The reduction of services continued throughout the 1980s and in 1992 the General Hospital finally closed, with its functions moving either to the QMC or to the City Hospital.