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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, near Tittensor

The Nurses' Dining Room at Groundslow Sanatorium. The original house at Groundslow Fields is believed to have been built in 1832 as a hunting lodge for the Duke of Sutherland of the nearby Trentham ...

Groundslow Sanatorium, near Tittensor

A view across fields of Groundslow Sanatorium. The original house at Groundslow Fields, seen here to the right of the more recent Santorium buildings, is believed to have been built in 1832 as a hunting ...

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, ...

Hartshill Orthopaedic Hospital, Stoke-on-Trent

The photograph shows the front of the Hartshill Orthopaedic Hospital on Hartshill Road. Opened in 1931, the buildings were demolished in 1997. The railings in the foreground were designed by Gordon Forsyth ...

Hospital and School of St. John, Alton

A postcard view looking north of the right range of the Hospital and School, Alton. It was begun in 1840 by A.W.N. Pugin around three sides of a quadrangle, facing Alton Castle. The left range and half ...

Hospital Staff, City General Hospital, Stoke-on-Trent

Nursing staff at the City General Hospital, London Road, Stoke.

Howard Hall Hostel, Yarnfield,

Howard Hall camp was built at the beginning of the Second World War to house War Workers from the Royal Ordnance factory at Swynnerton. When the Americans came into the war in 1941, the camp was handed ...

Interior of Littleton Colliery Medical Centre

Sick or injured men were treated here before gong to hospital or to their own doctor. Cannock and Huntington Collieries Company started sinking both No. 1 Shaft and No. 2 Shaft in January 1877. By ...

Interior of the Storeroom, St. Edwards Hospital, Cheddleton

The store was well designed with galleries containing all the goods, a lift, and a cellar. The stores were run by a storekeeper, whose job it was to keep up to date records of all the incoming and outcoming ...

Interior Re-Decoration Scheme Proposal, St. Edwards Hospital, Cheddleton

The suggested new colour scheme for Ward 9.

Interior Re-Decoration Scheme Proposal, St. Edwards Hospital, Cheddleton

The suggested new colour scheme for the Main Ward (Number 18). The drawing is the work of the Walpamur Company who submitted it to St. Edwards Hospital to consider as a proposal for the re-decoration ...

Interior Re-Decoration Scheme Proposal, St. Edwards Hospital, Cheddleton

The suggested new colour scheme for the Main Ward (Number 18). The drawing is the work of the Walpamur Company who submitted it to St. Edwards Hospital to consider as a proposal for the re-decoration ...

Interior Re-Decoration Scheme Proposal, St. Edwards Hospital, Cheddleton

The suggested new colour scheme for Ward 9, Day Room.

Interior View of Stafford General Infirmary,

The men's ward, later named the Anson Ward. The foundations of Stafford General Infirmary began in a rented house in Foregate Street in 1766, making it one of the oldest hospitals in the country. ...