Bridge Street, Stafford, (1)
The public house on the left is the Grapes Hotel.
On the right, in the distance, can be seen the clock tower of the Royal Brine Baths. The open-sided tower was used by the fire brigade to dry their ...
Brindley Heath Hospital, Cannock Chase
These were the Officers Quarters belonging to the Royal Army Medical Corps stationed at Rugeley Hospital on Cannock Chase. Behind these buildings was the Officers' Mess and Ablutions. These huts were ...
Brindley Heath Hospital, Cannock Chase
This postcard view looks south from Rugeley Camp towards Brindley Heath Hospital which can be seen on the left amongst the trees. The Hospital was also known as Rugeley Hospital even though it served ...
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
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
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
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 ...
Browning Dispensing Chemist, Ironmarket, Newcastle-under-Lyme
A family chemist, Browning’s was founded in the late 1930s or early 1940s. The building had become vacant by 1996.
Browning Dispensing Chemist, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Browning Dispensing Chemist’s shop on Ironmarket. The business started in the late 1930s or early 1940s, and medicines would have been prepared on site. The business lasted over fifty years and the ...
Building Cheddleton Asylum
St. Edward's Hall under construction at Cheddleton Asylum.
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 ...
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" ...
Building Cheddleton Asylum
St. Edward's Hall under construction at Cheddleton Asylum with the completed water tower in the background.
In 1890 Staffordshire County Council’s Lunacy Committee decided to build a new asylum for ...
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 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 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 Annie Podmore, servant, 26: ‘has weak intellect’ …’ has lived in Tamworth workhouse practically all her life’. Annie was discharged after 3 years ...