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County Asylum, Stafford,

The County Asylum on Corporation Street opened in 1818, to accommodate 120 private and pauper patients. The hospital moved to Seisdon near Wolverhampton in 1946 and the building became St. George's ...

County Mental Hospital, Cheddleton

In 1890 Staffordshire County Council’s Lunacy Committee decided to build a new asylum for the north of the county due to overcrowding in the existing asylums at Stafford and Burntwood. Land at Bank Farm ...

County Mental Hospital, Stafford

Standing to the right is Nancy Davies (nee Shelley) who was conscripted as a mental nurse during World War II. Originally built as the County Asylum in 1818, the building was later the County Mental ...

County Mental Hospital, Stafford

A women's ward at St. George's Hospital, Corporation Street, Stafford, with nursing staff standing behind the beds. Amongst the nurses is Nancy Shelley (nee Davies) of Colwich. Originally built as ...

County Mental Hospital, Stafford

Nurses in an antenatal ward at the County Mental Hospital in Stafford. Standing behind the bed is Nancy Davies (nee Shelley) who was conscripted as a mental nurse during World War II. Originally built ...

David Hollin Nurses Home, Stafford General Infirmary

David Hollin was a boot and shoe manufacturer. He lived in Highfield Manor on Newport Road. In 1916 he left £12,000 in his will 'for the erecting and furnishing of a Nurses' Home'. The David Hollin Nurses' ...

Doctor and chauffeur, Cheddleton

A North Staffordshire doctor paying a visit in his chauffeur driven car. The reverse of this postcard has a note stating that the photograph was taken at Cheddleton Asylum but we have been unable to ...

Dora Wiles at Yarnfield Hospital

Dora Wiles from Rugeley is pictured at Yarnfield Hospital, near Stone. This photograph is from a collection of photographs relating to Dora who was a patient at Yarnfield Hospital in 1928 and in ...

Dora Wiles with Patients and Nursing Staff, Yarnfield Hospital

Back row (left to right): Mrs Fernyhough, Miss Somers, Nurse Barnett, Edna Terry and Dora Wiles. Centre row: unknown, E Bancroft, Miss Topliss, R Danks, Florrie and Ella Gilbert. Front row: Maisie Bentley ...

Dora Wiles, Rugeley

This photograph is from a collection of photographs relating to Dora Wiles who is pictured outside her home 16 Hill Street, Rugeley. Dora was a patient at Yarnfield Hospital in 1928 and in 1930 and during ...

Dr. Wilkins and the Billiards Team, St. Edwards Hospital, Cheddleton

Members of the team and Dr. Wilkins pictured with their trophies in the hospital grounds.

Dunsley Home of Rest, Dunsley

The building dates from the early 1800's and was known as Dunsley House or Dunsley Villa. From 1912 until the 1930's the building was used as a rest home by the Girls' Friendly Society.

Ella Gilbert, Burton-upon-Trent

Ella Gilbert was from Needwood, near Burton-upon-Trent and during 1928 she was a patient at Yarnfield Hospital which was near to Stone. Ella died from tuberculosis at age the age of 17. This photograph ...

Fanny Deakin Hospital, Chesterton, Newcastle-under-Lyme

The Fanny Deakin Maternity Home opened in 1947.

Female imbecile ward, Stoke workhouse, Newcastle Road, Stoke-on-Trent

This plan is of the female imbecile ward (so called at the time) built in 1894 at Stoke workhouse on Newcastle Road. Workhouses were originally meant to be places where the poor could work in return for ...

Foresters Convalescent Home, Walton Pool, Stourbridge

This nursing home was founded by the Ancient Order of Foresters and built in 1893. During World War II the home was arefuge for children evacuated from Birmingham and Felixstowe. It has been a private ...

Groundslow Sanatorium, Tittensor

This photograph was probably taken when the building was a sanatorium. Said to be built in 1832 as a hunting lodge for the Duke of Sutherland of the nearby Trentham Estate, it was purchased by the Staffordshire, ...

Groundslow Sanatorium, Tittensor

This photograph was probably taken when the building was a sanatorium. Said to be built in 1832 as a hunting lodge for the Duke of Sutherland of the nearby Trentham Estate, it was purchased by the Staffordshire, ...