Military Hospital Staff, Newcastle Under Lyme
Staff outside the Military Hospital Nurses' Home on Newcastle Road, Newcastle-under-Lyme.
During the First World War Stoke-upon-Trent Union Workhouse temporarily became a Military Hospital. After ...
Military Hospital Staff, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Staff and two small children pictured outside the Military Hospital Nurses' Home on Newcastle Road, Newcastle-under-Lyme.
During the First World War Stoke-upon-Trent Union Workhouse temporarily became ...
Military Hospital, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Block B of the Military Hospital on Newcastle Road, Newcastle-under-Lyme pictured during the First World War. The building has since been demolished.
During the First World War Stoke-upon-Trent Union ...
Moorlands Hospital, Leek
Moorlands Hospital, Ashbourne Road, Leek. This building was originally built as Leek Union Workhouse in 1838-39 to designs by J. Bateman and G. Drury.
From the County Archaeology photograph collection ...
New Cross Wolverhampton Workhouse, Wednesfield
A women's ward at New Cross Workhouse.
New Cross Workhouse was built due to overcrowding at Wolverhampton Union’s Bilston Road Workhouse. Designed by Arthur Marshall of Nottingham, the foundation stone ...
New Cross Wolverhampton Workhouse, Wednesfield
The kitchens at New Cross Workhouse.
New Cross Workhouse was built due to overcrowding at Wolverhampton Union’s Bilston Road Workhouse. Designed by Arthur Marshall of Nottingham, the foundation stone ...
Newcastle Union Workhouse, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Union workhouses were built in an effort to combat poverty and encourage those who were seen as lazy to work their way out of poverty. They were designed to be as uncomfortable as possible. Men, women ...
Newcastle-under-Lyme - Almshouses: sepia drawing
'Almshouses at Newcastle under Lyme, Staffordshire.' Showing a large block of two storeys, L-shaped, with five entrances.'J. Buckler.'
In 1688 the Duke of Albemarle bequeathed £6000 for the erection ...
Newchapel & Goldenhill Station, Stoke-on-Trent
Newchapel & Goldenhill station was on the Potteries Loop Line between the two settlements of Newchapel (to the north)and Goldenhill (to the south). The station was opened in 1874 and originally known ...
Nurse maids at Newcastle-under-Lyme Workhouse
Photograph of nurse maids with a collie dog at Newcastle-under-Lyme Workhouse.
Newcastle-under-Lyme Poor Law Union was formed in April 1838 and a workhouse for up to 350 inmates was built on Keele ...
Nurses Home, Military Hospital, Newcastle Under Lyme
A postcard view of the Military Hospital Nurses' Home on Newcastle Road, Newcastle-under-Lyme. This building, built in 1902, has since been demolished.
During the First World War Stoke-upon-Trent Union ...
Old Almshouses and Bank House, Newcastle-under-Lyme
In 1688 the Duke of Albermarle bequeathed £6000 for the erection and maintenance of almshouses for twenty poor widows. The houses were eventually built in 1743 and are still in use in this photograph ...
Parish Hospital, Stoke workhouse, Newcastle Road, Stoke-on-Trent
This plan is of the parish hospital at Stoke workhouse. It was built in 1842, in response to the increasing number of ill people who came to the workhouse, and held about 80 patients.
Diagrams (clockwise ...
Parish Room and Cottage Homes, Armitage
The four almshouses and the Parish Room were built by the Rev. E. Samson in 1904. He had previously built four almshouses in Brereton. The homes were for the use of needy village people. The almshouses ...
Poor Relief Rate Book, Newcastle-under-Lyme
This book lists all those who were receiving 'Poor Relief' in Newcastle in 1848.
After the Poor Relief Amendment Act of 1834, parishes no longer provided relief to their poor, but were grouped together ...
Portrait of Dr Masfen, Surgeon, Stafford,
Dr Masfen was born in 1831. He graduated from London University in 1853, where he won the University Scholarship and the Gold Medal.
He took over his father's practice in Stafford in 1854 and worked ...
Portrait of Mr Ansell, Stafford,
'Old Ansell' was an inmate of the Union Workhouse, Stafford.
He was 100 years old when this photograph was taken.
Rev. Robert Palmer's Almshouses, Broad Street, Stafford,
The Rev. Palmer was rector of St. Mary's Church. He endowed two almshouses in Smoakey Lane, now Martin Street, for the poor of Stafford in 1683. By the nineteenth century the buildings had been exchanged ...