St Georges

[NobodyGirl]

My first visit to St. Georges many thanks to Kaputnik! I had a really great time and I have a special place in my heart for this building! Lots of little hidden gems to this place! Thought I had lost Kaputnik tho at one moment, which scared the heck out of me!

Background Info:

Stafford County Asylum opened in 1818 to accomodate 120 patients. Over the years it expanded and housed around 1000 patients. During the 1950s, it was renamed St George's Hospital. Like so many other asylums, it closed in the mid-1990s. There are plans to convert the Grade II listed buildings into "100 distinctive dwellings", and work should be starting in 2008.

Staffordshire County Asylum (Stafford)
Administrative records go back to 1812
A County/Subscription Hospital
Rossbret pictures - Asylums - Stafford Asylum
Opened 1.10.1818
Architect: Joseph Potter. Early form, later adapted to corridor.
Accommodation for 120, but only 65 patients in 1820
Superintendent 1841 to 1855: James Wilkes
Reported in 1842 that an improved system of warming and ventilation had been introduced. Previously, dysentery had been prevalent, but no cases had occurred since. (1844 Report p.17)
1.1.1844 245 patients. 183 pauper and 62 private.
1851 Subscribers' representative Thomas Salt
1854 Coton Hill opened
1864 Burntwood opened
1879 Extended
1881 Census: The County Lunatic Asylum, Hopton and Coton, Stafford. William Thompson Pater (unmarried, aged 46, surgeon) Superintendent
1884 Extended
1898 Cheddleton opened
1898 Weston Hall rented as an annexe
Stafford Mental Hospital by 1929 to about 1948
Became St George's Hospital, Corporation Street, Stafford, ST16 3AG
1994: 147 patients
(map)
Something closed in 1995 (but something still has a website)

The pics! A mixture of my snapshots and more artistic photos. Its a pick and mix tonight!

My favorite. The anti Suicide cages.

A different view

Awesome ceilings!

My favorite corridor

A strange scene! Kaputnik leading the way

The Pill machine! kinda like a big sweet dispenser!

 

[NobodyGirl]

Been sifting through historical bits about the place and come across some beautiful old photos!!!

The old look

artistic representation

A little more modern look

Windows still in the chapel

Another oldie

 

[Foxylady]

Love...absolutely love your photos, Ngirl. Yeh, the building is a special place to me too...although I didn't go inside on my visit last year, I spent a good couple of hours taking outside pics. It has a great atmosphere.
Thanks for posting the old photos too. Neat!

 

[smileysal]

Excellent pics missy, really like these. Love that corridor shot, and the tablet dispenser. (not seen that before).

Love seeing old pics of the place when it was in use.

Cheers,

Sal

 

[NobodyGirl]

Excellent pics missy, really like these. Love that corridor shot, and the tablet dispenser. (not seen that before).

Love seeing old pics of the place when it was in use.

Cheers,

Sal

Thanks darling,
Noticed your signature in the guest book

Love...absolutely love your photos, Ngirl. Yeh, the building is a special place to me too...although I didn't go inside on my visit last year, I spent a good couple of hours taking outside pics. It has a great atmosphere.
Thanks for posting the old photos too. Neat!

Its fantastic in there! Little more dangerous than some as we found tho! Thank you!

 

[Mr Sam]

one i wouldnt mind seing

great pics as allways

 

[photographymatt]

Awesome place. Check out meth, on here, photos of the place. He knows the place like the back of his hand.

I cant wait to go back.give me a shout if you go back again Plus my studen house from next month...4 mins walk from st georges....hehe :-D pop over for a cuppa.

 

[Virusman26]

Awesome place. Check out meth, on here, photos of the place. He knows the place like the back of his hand.

I cant wait to go back.give me a shout if you go back again Plus my studen house from next month...4 mins walk from st georges....hehe :-D pop over for a cuppa.

Yeah, don't he live like next door to the place? Such a lucky git. I went back to JN Miller a few months back, and I knew Meth was going to St.George's the same day. I SO should have gone!!!!!

 

[odeon master]

st. george's hospital

great pictures. its always good to see original photos of the building back in its hayday in use. well done for finding those. research usually pays off with pics like these.