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
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
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 ...
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' ...
Isolation Hospital, Cheslyn Hay
The Isolation Hospital at Cheslyn Hay was founded in 1904 for patients suffering from contagious diseases such as tuberculosis, diptheria and scarlet fever. The hospital closed in 1950 and the building ...
Men's Surgical Ward, Stafford General Infirmary
A view of patients in beds, which line the walls of the ward which is decorated for Christmas. Nurses and doctors are standing beside the beds.
The foundations of Stafford General Infirmary began ...
Ministry of Pensions Hospital, Brindley Heath, Cannock Chase
The Ministry of Pensions was concerned specifically with the accommodation of military pensioners of the two World Wars and from pre-1914 conflicts in hospitals and other institutions in the United Kingdom ...
New Extension, Stafford General Infirmary
The new extension included a new children's ward, a surgical ward and Radiology and Physiotherapy departments and was opened on 7th May 1938 by Lord Horder, Physician to the King.
The foundations ...
Nurses and convalescing soldiers, Ravenhill House, Brereton
A group of convalescing military personnel photographed with nurses and civilians during World War I against the south-facing window of Ravenhill House adjacent to the garden. The house was used as a ...
Stafford General Infirmary
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. Funds were acquired through subscriptions and bequests. ...
Stafford Union Workhouse
The Stafford Union Workhouse was built on Marston Road in 1838. From 1948 the building was used as an old people's home and as the Fernleigh Hospital. It was demolished in 1971.
Postcard published ...
Wounded soldiers at Milford Hall, Stafford
Wounded soldiers wearing 'Hospital Blues' convalescing at Milford Hall, near Stafford during the First World War. The alternate image is a digitally colourised version of the image.