Reports - Staffordshire
Stafford County Lunatic Asylum
Where? Stafford. Photos 29. Comments 19. Posted 15 January 2008.
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.
Wolverhampton Royal Hospital
Where? Wolverhampton. Photos 48. Comments 8. Posted 24 January 2008.
Wolverhampton hospital opened in 1849, thanks to some local businessmen who decided that the town needed a hospital. Over the years it expanded, with new wings and operating facilities being built. It finally closed in 1997 when a new out-of-town hospital was built. Ten years later the buildings sit rotting away in Wolverhampton's city centre, suffering at the hands of vandals, vagrants and arsonists. Tesco apparently own the site, and work has begun on some regeneration in the area...
If you're interested in reading more about the hospital then this website has a far more detailed history.
