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"Wadsley
Asylum Gates in Winter"
"Wadsley
Asylum Gates"
The hospital during World War One
Wounded soldiers World War One
Administration
building
Wounded
soldiers and nurses World War One
Wharncliffe
War Hospital
Wharncliffe
War Hospital
Wharncliffe
War Hospital
The markings
on this piece of broken ceramic found on the grounds of the hospital in 2013,
it reads "BLEU DE ROI" and that they were made by Alfred Meakin
of England.
This family company manufactured ironstone china and white granite ware since
the 1880’s.
The actual mark on the ceramic indicates possible tableware from post-war
1945+
A painted postcard
Aerial view of the hospital
Wadsley
Asylum
Victorian nurses
Church and the drive
The church of the hospital today
with a 'For Sale' sign. January 2014
Wadsley Asylum
‘SORRY…MAN’S INHUMANITY TO MAN’
the words written in this small cross placed next to
the South Yorkshire Asylum memorial. Over 2,500 men, women and children die
at the asylum 1872-1948.
Wadsley Church, Sheffield.
OOOOOOOOOO
The following
images and documents relate to Edna Corbett who trained at the hospital
and worked there from 1935 until she retired as an Assistant Matron in 1968.
Edna died in 1993.
The information was sent in by e-mail from her Aunt Kathleen. Kathleen explained..."
I don't know whose baby she
is holding - possibly the child of a member of staff. I have no dates for
any of them...I think the documents are self explanatory".
Edna (right)
Edna (left)
Christmas
dinner probably after 1962
Edna (right)
OOOOOOOOO
This uniform was worn
by Minnie Holmes when she worked as an unqualified
nurse at Wharncliffe War Hospital (this was the name of the hospital during
the First World War).
Minnie had previously worked at the hospital before the war when it was the
Wadsley Asylum.