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St Matthews Hospital, Burntwood, Staffordshire- chapel

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 12:33 PM PST

One of the few remaining parts of the hospital... but here's some back in the day pics courtesy of David

























now I think a nursery or something like that... I'll take some pics for comparison at some point ;)


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St Matthews Hospital, Burntwood, Staffordshire- black and white (part 2)

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 11:43 AM PST

The rest of the B & Ws



I can only wonder what is happening in this picture..




































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St Matthews Hospital, Burntwood, Staffordshire- black and white

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 11:36 AM PST

My personal favourites these as they offer a fascinating insight into the (normally) faceless people associated with an asylum..













for the record, this is my favourite picture :drool:






































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St Matthews Hospital, Burntwood, Staffordshire

Posted: 20 Dec 2011 01:59 AM PST

Outside 2


























































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St Matthews Hospital, Burntwood, Staffordshire

Posted: 20 Dec 2011 01:50 AM PST

Outside 1

Following on from here-

http://www.midlandsheritage.co.uk/ba...html#post30906

and here-

http://www.midlandsheritage.co.uk/ge...html#post31012

you can now see the pictures in better detail.. (please bear with me as there is over 140 of them, but they are truly amazing)..


















































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St Mathew's Asylum, Burntwood, Staffordshire

Posted: 26 Nov 2011 02:37 AM PST

Hi Everyone,

I'm a new member of the forum but have followed this thread for some time. My Grandfather was treated at St Matthews a couple of times - once in the 1930's and once in the early 50's, and his Mother (my Great Grandmother) died there in 1955.

I remember the hospital still being there when I was a kid, but as I recall it was either completely disused or was pretty close to it at the time. I didn't go back to Burntwood for a few years (I went to school in Cannock, so travelled in the opposite direction), but the next time I went, there was a housing estate there instead.

With a lot of help from a very generous ex member of staff at St Matthews, and David Budden, who wrote an excellent book on St Matthews (available from Amazon), I have managed to get this web album of pictures of the hospital and its staff together, I hope you enjoy having a look...

https://picasaweb.google.com/1180528...dStaffordshire


Tony

The waggon and horses, Wolverhampton

Posted: 20 Dec 2011 12:02 PM PST

Imagine my delight at seeing this place wide open after wondering what it looked like inside for over three years... boy was I in for a disappointment!







the beer garden..





























by now I'd given up :(

reason for closing-

Birmingham Mail - News - Top Stories - Man shot outside Wolverhampton pub

Harringworth Viaduct.

Posted: 11 Dec 2011 08:27 AM PST

Harringworth Viaduct, on the Jurassic Way footpath in the north east of the county, was built by the Midland Railway to span the Welland Valley in 1877-79. It is 1.2km (3/4 of a mile) in length with 82 arches, each 40 feet wide, and is an impressive piece of engineering and architectural heritage.

It crosses the valley of the River Welland between Harringworth in Northamptonshire and Seaton in Rutland and is the longest masonry viaduct across a valley in Britain.

Also known as Welland Viaduct, it lies on the Oakham to Kettering Line and carries the twin track non-electrified line between Corby and Manton Junction, where it joins the Leicester to Peterborough line. The route is generally used for the passage of freight trains and steam train outings. The line and structure is a favourite with steam train and heritage enthusiasts, carrying a Grade II Listed Structure status and dominating this picturesque rural valley.

400 men and 120 horses built this blue brick structure of which there is estimated to be 20 million, all manufactured on site. It is 60 feet high at its highest point.


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Newcastle Canal

Posted: 06 Nov 2011 12:30 PM PST

In existence from 1800 to 1935. Amazingly, there's a small stretch of water still visible, opposite the City General Hospital and behind the Jewish cemetery.

Newcastle-under-Lyme Canal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://www.midlandsheritage.co.uk/pu...yme-canal.html

http://www.midlandsheritage.co.uk/me...conductor.html

Path of the canal bed looking north-west.











After a couple of hundred yards the canal bed is overgrown



but bullrushes show that there's still unseen water.

Derby and Sandiacre Canal

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 12:42 PM PDT

Campaigners have wanted to reopen a 12.5 mile (20km) stretch of the Derby to Sandiacre Canal for more than 10 years, saying it will boost the area.

Derby City Council has now given outline planning permission for work on a seven-mile (11.3km) section from Swarkestone to Borrowash.

Volunteers said the money would be raised over years from developers, lottery funding and sale of assets.

The permission means most of the original route of the canal, much of which is currently a footpath, will be able to take boats.

Chris Madge, chairman of Derby and Sandiacre Canal Society, said it had done a lot of work on how it would fund the scheme.

"By working sensibly with developers we believe they will find it in their interests to actually build sections of the canal for nothing, to give to us.

"The canal has been filled in, which is quite unusual, and we believe we can sell the soil within it and then there are the normal sources such as the lottery."

Steve Jefferys, chairman of Derby and Sandiacre Canal Trust, emphasised the canal would benefit a wide area.

"Once we did feasibility studies I cottoned on to how much value this would bring, not just to Long Eaton, Breaston and Draycott but also to Derby, with job creation.

"Derby is one of the few cities in the country without a canal. Derby is missing out."

Erewash Borough Council and South Derbyshire District Council will consider similar applications for five-mile (8km) and 437yd (400m) sections later in July.

(BBC news, July 8th 2011)

Welcome - The Derby & Sandiacre Canal

The photos are of the canal where it passed to the south of Borrowash.

At this point (the first two photos) the canal runs parallel to the Derby - Long Eaton/Nottingham railway line.



The towpath is now a public footpath.



Lots of bullrushes.

Stanley, Staffordshire

Posted: 23 Dec 2011 09:30 AM PST

Stanley Congregation Chapel C 1865. Known as Tomkin Chapel

There is a very small chapleyard with three memorials to the left of the building as you lokk at it from the road. I can only assume more bodies are interred

Phoebe, w/o James SMITH of
Rose Bank, Cheddleton, 18 June 1870, 84
Joseph SMITH, s, 23 July 1897, 82

William TURNER, 10 August 1839, 79
Ann, w, 26 March 1838, 78

Amy, d/o Joseph & Sarah JAMES
of Tomkin, 16 January 1870, 13yrs & 8 months
Joseph JAMES, above, late of Brunswick Place,
Hanley, late of Tomkin, 13 April 1878, 61
Sarah JAMES, w, above, 26 July 1884, 69


A view of the inside through a window

Midlands only!

Posted: 25 Nov 2011 01:41 PM PST

Midlands only examples please, subjects from elsewhere go here-

Non-Midlands heritage - Midlands Heritage Forum



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Stone, Gloucestershire

Posted: 18 Nov 2011 12:41 AM PST

St Michael and All Saints' Church, Penkridge

Posted: 14 Nov 2011 09:55 AM PST

More images from Penkridge Church

This image show groves that were made by Archers.
During the 12 and 13 centuries there was a law requiring that all men practice archery in churchyards on Sundays, hence the men caused the groves by sharpening arrow heads. They can seen on the south side of the church

United Reformed Church, Knowle

Posted: 10 Nov 2011 08:38 AM PST

I've never before seen a church or chapel that looks like this one; is it unique, I wonder? And what could have been the inspiration behind the design for the front?





Built as a Congregational Chapel in 1932.



















Despite my knocking on the side door at 7:30am(!) I got a warm welcome from the two ladies inside. My thanks to them.

Church of Christ, Burslem

Posted: 06 Nov 2011 09:57 AM PST

Tucked away in a suburban street of terraced housing in the Burslem Park area is this evangelical church.

The Church of Christ first met in Stoke-on-Trent in the Wedgwood Mission Hall in Wedgwood Street, Burslem. The congregation then moved to this purpose-built meeting house in 1910.

Christ Church, Burbage, Buxton

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 02:27 PM PDT

This is a work in progress:

Castlefields Church, Derby

Posted: 29 Oct 2011 12:44 PM PDT

The smallest church building in Derby?

A short but interesting history and, although the interior looks quite plain on the photos I've seen of it, I'll be looking to see if I can get inside sometime.

The church started in the 1870's when Christian railway men went street preaching in this area of Derby. People became Christians, and began to meet together as a church. Premises were rented, and the church was known in the early years as 'The Derby Town Mission'. In the church you will see a plaque to an 'Isaac Newton' - not to be confused with the Isaac Newton! Under his tireless leadership the whole work grew and the church was able to purchase the current building on Traffic Street. The work has continued through times of both hardship and blessing right to the present day. It is now known as Castlefields Church after the local area of Derby.
(from the church's website)
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