Description:A view across fields of Groundslow Sanatorium. The original house at Groundslow Fields, seen here to the right of the more recent Santorium buildings, is believed to have been built in 1832 as a hunting lodge for the Duke of Sutherland of the nearby Trentham Estate. It was purchased by the Staffordshire, Wolverhampton and Dudley Joint Committee for Tuberculosis in 1913 and turned into a 70 bed sanatorium for female patients. Later a mixed sanatorium, it had become a maternity hospital by 1960, finally closing its doors in 1983. The site was redeveloped 2002 as housing.
Photographer: Bertram Sinkinson, F.R.P.S., of Stafford.