St Dominic's Convent Station Rd, Stone.

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Date:1905 - 1907 (c.)

Description:A postcard view St Dominic's Convent, on the corner of Station Road and Margaret Street. Published by A.W. Tilley, newsagents and stationers, 7 Radford Street, Stone.

Mother Margaret Hallahan of the Dominican Order founded St. Dominic's Convent in the mid-nineteenth century. This was originally a small chapel on Station Road dedicated to St. Anne. The building still exists in the convent grounds.

Mother Margaret Hallahan and the sisters visited the town's sick and needy. In 1856 she turned a cottage on Station Road into a home for elderly and terminally ill women. This was the beginning of St. Mary's Home seen here just past the treee on the left.

In 1860 the home moved to new, larger premises in the former Hand and Trumpet Inn building on Newcastle Street. The home moved again, to Elmhurst House on Margaret Street, in 1871.

Today the home has a new building in the grounds of St. Dominic's Convent. In 2006 the building pictured began to be converted into apartments.

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Creators: Mr A. W. Tilley - Creator

Image courtesy of: Staffordshire Museum Service

Donor ref:P2006.001.0017 (37/17755)

Source: Staffordshire Museum Service

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