Standon Hall Orthopaedic Hospital

Move your pointing device over the image to zoom to detail. If using a mouse click on the image to toggle zoom.
When in zoom mode use + or - keys to adjust level of image zoom.

Date:1935 - 1945 (c.)

Description:A colour-tinted postcard view of the Grade 2 listed Standon Hall with a nurse and children on the lawn.

Standon Hall was built 1910 to the designs of J. Francis Doyle for Sir Thomas Anderson Salt, a Director of the North Staffordshire Railway Company, as his family home. It was sold to Staffordshire County Council in 1925 for use as a hospital. By 1930 pavilions had been built in the grounds to house tuberculosis patients. It was primarily used as an Orthapaedic Hospital until the opening of Stafford General Hospital in 1983 when the site was sold. The Hall itself was to be a private residential rare home known as 'The Beeches' with the ancillary buildings being used to care for dementia patients. By 2016 the site was vacant and planning permission to convert the Hall and outbuildings and homes was refused. In 2019 permission was granted for it to be used as a wedding venue.

Postcard published by Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd.

Share:


Image courtesy of: The Roy Lewis Postcard Collection

Donor ref:Roy Lewis-539 (240/47531)

Copyright information: Copyrights to all resources are retained by the individual rights holders. They have kindly made their collections available for non-commercial private study & educational use. Re-distribution of resources in any form is only permitted subject to strict adherence to the usage guidelines.