Description:Royalties from Margaret Lonsdale’s book "Sister Dora" were used to build the Convalescent Home at Milford. Dorothy Pattison, or Sister Dora, was famous for her work nursing the poor in a hospital in Walsall. The Hospital was opened by Lady Stamer on 19 April 1884 and Margaret Lonsdale, grand-daughter of the Bishop of Lichfield, became its Matron, having trained as a nurse at Guys Hospital. The hospital was intended primarily for Walsall patients, had sixteen beds, and was open for only eight months of the year. From February 1915 a limited number of convalescent solders were admitted and then in December 1917 the whole building was taken over by the Military Authorities until the end of the war when it was handed back to the Committee of Management. It was later used as a rest home for the elderly until it closed in 2016 and was demolished in September 2018.
This postcard was published by the Scientific Press Ltd. It was franked at Milford and later at Stafford Station (10.15pm) on 8 September 1905 and sent to an address in Watford.