Liverpool Hospitals - Liverpool Stanley Hospital

This second hospital on the site was built 1874 and finally closed in 1976

Stanley Hospital was established in Stanley Road, Kirkdale in 1867 as the Hospital for the Treatment of Diseases of the Chest and Diseases of Women & Children. It was supported by voluntary contributions from the general public. On an area of 200 by 400 feet, date stones on the façade show it was founded in 1867, with the Foundation stone laid on the 6th of June 1870. Whit Monday, the 6th of June 1870 would also see the opening of the 3 day long 'Grand Monstre Gala' at Stanley Park - in aid of the building fund for the new Hospital. This involved a 'Grand Fancy Fair', a Flower Show and Bazaar, plus a Plain and Fancy Dress Ball, etc. The takings for the first day reached nearly £3,000.

Erected in 1872, the hospital was first in use in 1873 but the first hospital building was closed in 1873 and a new building erected on the Stanley Road site in 1874 with no other hospital within a mile and a half. An extension to Stanley Hospital was opened on Tuesday the 6th of October 1885 as the Right Hon. the Earl of Derby performed the formal ceremony of declaring open the two new wings, as well as the entire building. The additional wings were to the north and south of the administrative building and were 3 storeys high, including the basement. New buildings opened from 1898 onwards as a date stone 1898 shows, opened by Alderman John Houldine for Roger Lyon Jones Trust. Further, it was 'a large, typical mid-Victorian building' with the façade comprising two wings and long central piece. The 1898 Memorial wing on the ground was originally for convalescence.

This complimentary ticket was for a benefit match at Anfield on the 23rd May 1885 in aid of The Stanley Hospital. Part of the club’s rent of the Anfield ground was also a small donation to The Stanley Hospital, in the name of Joseph Orrell. (The Everton Collection).

This ticket is special as it was for an Everton home derby at Anfield against a Liverpool team, 7 years before Liverpool Football Club were formed. There was a 'Liverpool' team in existence long before the present-day Liverpool Football Club (founded in 1892). This team played their games at Walton Stiles.

The Children’s Ward were cheered up by a special visit from a mounted zebra and Christmas presents from the Lord Mayor in the 1930's - Evening Express Liverpool

In 1937 the Liverpool Stanley Hospital became a member of the Royal United Liverpool Hospitals as The United Liverpool Hospitals Act was given Royal Assent amalgamating four Liverpool voluntary hospitals - the Royal Infirmary, the David Lewis Northern, the Royal Southern and the Stanley Hospitals - into a single body. In 1963 it was proposed to close the hospital and on the 31st of March 1965 it was closed, as part of the United Liverpool Hospitals' rationalisation programme. However, in July 1965 the Ministry of Health agreed to the Hospital's re-opening for a three year period. The Hospital re-opened on the 10th of January 1966 to provide a limited range of services. Between 1900 and 1994 it had functioned as a general hospital, before being demolished in 1994. The Hospital closed finally in March 1976 and the buildings were demolished and the site cleared with the exception of the Boundary Wall which still stands to this day. 

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