Kitchen, St. Edwards Hospital, Cheddleton
The new kitchens at St. Edwards, showing the enormous tea earns on the right hand-side, and patent steam cooking range on the back wall.
Kitchen, St. Edwards Hospital, Cheddleton
The new kitchens at St. Edwards, showing the patent steam cooking ranges, tea urns and preparation tables.
Kitchen, St. Edwards Hospital, Cheddleton
Interior of the newly built kitchen area. The kitchens were located next to the main dining hall, so that the 600 patients' meals arrived hot at their tables. Situated along the back wall are a number ...
Kitchen, St. Edwards Hospital, Cheddleton
Interior view of the new kitchens and three members of the kitchen staff hard at work. In order to keep the kitchen area as clean as possible the walls were tiled to a height of 6 feet.
Ladder Bridge, Stafford
The Ladder Bridge spanned the River Penk at its junction with the Sow. It no longer exists although a new cycle track connecting Baswich Lane with Tixall Road has been built close to the site. The postcard ...
Ladies' Sitting Room, Coton Hill Asylum, Stafford,
Coton Hill Asylum was built in the 1850s and opened in 1854. It was originally built as an extension to the County Asylum in order to house private patients. It was to be known as The institution for ...
Laudanum and Neuralgia
During the Victorian period cures for diseases were often more dangerous than the illness itself.
Laudanum is a notable example of the Victorian cure. Pharmacies could prescribe the dangerous drug ...
Laundry staff, Cheddleton Asylum
Staff pictured in the laundry at Cheddleton Asylum. Standing second from left and wearing a dark dress is one of the female attendants.
In 1890 Staffordshire County Council’s Lunacy Committee decided ...
Laundry, Longton Cottage Hospital
The Laundry. Longton Cottage Hospital was built in Upper Belgrave Road in 1889-90 on land given by the Duke of Sutherland. It replaced an earlier building which stood on Mount Pleasant (now Lawley Street). ...
Lawley Street, Longton
The site of the Jubilee Works and the old Longton Hospital.
The original Longton Cottage Hospital was built in 1868 on Mount Pleasant (now Lawley Street). In 1879 it moved to a new building on the ...
Laying foundation stone of Almshouses or Wesleyan School, Brereton
Foundation stone laying ceremony in Brereton, either for the Almshouses established by the Revd. Edward Sampson in 1904, or for the opening of the new Wesleyan School, opened in 1905. Rugeley Town Band ...
Lea Hall Colliery First Aid team
Members of the First Aid team 1980-1 each holding a silver cup. Second on the left is Steve Perrin, Middle: Richard Instone, Right: Richard Barber.
Lea Hall was the first colliery planned and sunk ...
Leek Moorlands Hospital
Exterior view of the front of the building.
Leek Town - 'Ash's Almshouses': sepia drawing
'North East View of Ash's Almshouses at Leek, Staffordshire: Anno Dom. 1696.' Each cottage has two windows below and two above (in gable), and the doors are in pairs. 'J. Buckler.'
Lichfield - Hospital for Women: sepia drawing
'This Hospital for fifteen women was founded by Tho[ma]s Milley, D.D. Canon Residentiary of the Cathedral Church of Lichfield, A.D. 1504.' Showing a cottage-like house with a dormer window, a Tudor porch, ...
Lichfield - Master's House at St. John's Hospital: sepia drawing
'Master's house at Saint John's Hospital, Lichfield,' [on St. John's Street.] West view showing a Georgian building of three storeys with a door on the right. Artist: J. Buckler.
Lichfield - St. John's Chapel: pen and sepia drawing
'The Chapel of St. John Bapt. in Lichfield,' [by St. John's Hospital, on St. John's Street.] Also showing part of the Master's house on the right. Anonymous, [? an early Stringer.]