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Queenswood building.
Postcard showing wounded soldiers and nurses. During First World War the army
took over the hospital.
The back of the postcard.
'Wharncliffe War Hospital'. This was the name of the hospital during the First
World War.
'Middlewood Lodge' in the background. Photo taken at ground level under the
ornated legs of a bench. 2011.
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Wounded soldiers on the grounds of the hospital, First World War.
Remains of hospital gate 2010.
Staffs Sports and Social Club.
'Kingswood Hall' almost converted.
'Kingswood Hall' almost converted.
The back of 'Kingswood Hall' during conversion.
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(Please note that the next five pictures have been in the public domain before)
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The next set of pictures are from the Middlewood Hospital collection deposited at the Sheffield Archives.
Ward kitchen, new style.
New dish/pot washer, main kitchen.
Main kitchen.
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New staff canteen.
Patient's dining room at the converted entertainment hall.
Old male Ward 7 (1960).
Day room of female ward 18 North, previously main dining hall. (November 1960).
April 1963.
April 1963.
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Entrance to the former farm of the hospital
Farming was a major part of the asylum estate economy and provided food for staff and patients, as well as therapeutic activity for male patients. In 1890 the hospital committee purchased this farm with outbuildings. In those Victorian times many patients were unwilling to work and some were unable to because of their condition. Privileges were used to coax them, and their withdrawal might include depriving a man of his tobacco or enforced absence from halls, concerts and entertainments. — In 1956 the ministry of health suggested closing down the farm because they played a negligible role in the occupational therapy of patients.