Bridge Street, Stafford
Postcard published by Valentine & Sons Ltd., Dundee and London. Postmarked 24 February 1907.
Bridge Street, Stafford
Bridge Street, close to Green Bridge, looking towards the town centre. The clock tower belongs to the Royal Brine Baths, built in 1892. The open-sided tower was used by the fire brigade to dry their ...
Bridge Street, Stafford
Photograph taken from Grapes Corner, the junction of Lichfield Road, Bailey Street and Newport Road. On the right, in the distance, can be seen the clock tower of the Royal Brine Baths. The open-sided ...
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
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 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
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 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 ...
Cannock Chase views
Written from Sister Dora Nursing Home on Milford Common. A father writing to his daughter on 30 Oct 1917 about the area and the food he is expected to eat: obviously a patient in the Nursing Home. From ...
Convalescent Home, Milford, Stafford
Royalties from Margaret Lonsdales book "Sister Dora" were used to built the Convalescent Home at Milford. Dorothy Pattison, or Sister Dora, was famous for her work nursing the poor in a hospital in Walsall. ...
Coton Hill Hospital, 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 ...
Coton Hill Hospital, 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 ...
Coton Hill Hospital, 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 ...
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' ...
English Electric Welfare Camp, Rhyl
Siemens Brothers became English Electric after the outbreak of World War 1. This postcard published by Rae Pickard Studios of Rhyl shows a group of young employees from the factory on Lichfield Road, ...
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 ...
Kingsmead, Kings Bromley
Kingsmead, a Staffordshire County Council holiday home at Kings Bromley, now a care home. The water tower in the background is all that remains of the Manor at Kings Bromley, also known as Kings Bromley ...
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 ...