Brindley Heath Hospital, Cannock Chase
The Wards, like the huts, were lined with a type of asbestos as a form of insulation. You can still find the brick bases where the stoves for heating would have stood. There were apparently three stoves ...
Brindley Heath Hospital, Cannock Chase
The caption For this photograph was "Farewell to Matron" and she is beaming as she is waved off by staff and patients along the main driveway in front of the wards. Above the windscreen can be seen one ...
Brindley Heath Hospital, Cannock Chase
This postcard was sent by a nurse working at the hospital and she has marked with a cross where her Ward was, which was No. 11. Further down the main track you can see the flagpole which was at the entrance ...
Brindley Heath Hospital, Cannock Chase
Nurses and convalescing soldiers in the snow at Brindley Heath Hospital. The Ministry of Pensions Hospital at Brindley Heath on Cannock Chase. The Military Hospital was built in 1916 to serve both Brocton ...
Brindley Heath Hospital, Cannock Chase
This is the main entrance to the Brindley Hospital Site with the admission building half way down the main roadway on the left in between the twelve wards blocks. The sign by the entrance mentions the ...
Brine Swim, Royal Brine Baths, Stafford,
In the 1880s a thick bed of salt was discovered on Stafford Common, during the search for a water supply for the town. This led to the opening of the Brine Baths in Greengate Street in 1892, designed ...
Building Cheddleton Asylum
The asylum at Cheddleton in Staffordshire was built to serve the Pottery towns and the area surrounding Leek.
Patients were referred to as "inmates", and anyone from people with a "mild affliction" ...
Burntwood Asylum
This postcard view shows the entrance front of Burntwood Asylum, later St. Matthew's Hospital, a name officially adopted in 1948.
The hospital was built by the County of Stafford for mentally ill patients ...
Burntwood Asylum
Postcard view of the entrance front of Burntwood Asylum, later St. Matthew's Hospital, a name officially adopted in 1948.
The hospital was built by the County of Stafford for mentally ill patients ...
Burntwood Hospital Photograph
St Matthew’s Hospital, Burntwood case note extract for Annie Podmore, servant, 26: ‘has weak intellect’ …’ has lived in Tamworth workhouse practically all her life’. Annie was discharged after 3 years ...
Burntwood Hospital Photograph
St Matthew’s Hospital, Burntwood case note extract for Alice Florendine charwoman: ‘has illegitimate child of 14 also one dead’…’practically nothing in the house’… ‘hopes she shant always be punished’. ...
Burntwood Hospital Photograph
St Matthew’s Hospital, Burntwood case note extract for Frances Jones: housewife, 52 ‘had 14 children, 6 died, most in infancy’…. ‘says she is in misery’…. Frances was a long-term patient and lived ...
Burslem and Wolstanton Poor Union - a document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
In the 1790s, the expense of providing relief to the poor fell upon local parishes in Stoke-on-Trent.
This document outlines a meeting held to discuss sharing the costs between Burslem and nearby Wolstanton.
The ...
Burslem Technical College Annexe, Moorland Road, Burslem
Burslem Technical College was constructed between 1878 and 1900 and was originally Stansfield Hospital. It comprises of seven buildings, blocks A to G. This photogragh shows the rear of blocks D and E.
Block ...
Burton Red Cross inspection, Stapenhill, Burton-upon-Trent
Burton Red Cross inspection at an Army field kitchen training day held at Stanton Road Brickfields, Stapenhill, Burton-upon-Trent. Carrying out the inspection is Major Winslow RAMC of the Military Hospital, ...
Burton Red Cross, Wychnor Park
The Burton branch of the British Red Cross Society at a Staffordshire Yeomanry field day held at Wychnor Park. Seated in the middle of the front row are Hugh Charrington and Mrs Charrington, who was ...
Burton Red Cross, Wychnor Park
The Burton branch of the British Red Cross Society at a Staffordshire Yeomanry field day held at Wychnor Park. Red Cross nurses are practicing treating 'patients', played by local Scouts, in temporary ...
Burton Red Cross, Wychnor Park
The Burton branch of the British Red Cross Society at a Staffordshire Yeomanry field day held at Wychnor Park. Red Cross members are practicing treating 'patients', played by local Scouts. The Medical ...