445 Stanley House, Erdington, Birmingham
Stanley House, Erdington, Birmingham
HISTORIC BUILDINGS _ BRITAIN + IRELAND
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Stanley House is a Grade II listed building and now forms part of the Priory Hospital complex.
The House was built for Sir John Jaffrey who was born in Stirling, Scotland and was educated Glasgow Hospital. A rags to riches story he arrived in Birmingham at the age of 26 with his savings of £20. Starting work on the Birmingham Journal as well as the Weekly Post and was a correspondent for the Daily Mail, rising through the ranks, he later became President of the Birmingham General Hospital and a magistrate for two counties.
In 1885 he founded the Jaffrey Hospital at Stanley House, a 56 bed hospital, opened by The Prince of Wales (Edward VII) on 29th November 1885. As a hospital where the working man (and woman) were cared for, it was also for chronic cases transferred from the Genral Hospital.
By 1889 the Hospital had grown to large for Stanley House and was relocated. Stanley House then becoming the home of Edgbaston College founded by Mary Bailey, catering for girls from 5 to 18 years old and boys from 5 to 7, the school soon expanded and opened a boarding house on the other side of Bristol Road.
From 1913 to 1962 Stanley House became a boys Preparatory School under headmaster Mr Harold Shay, upon his retirement he sold the school to Mrs Mary MacGeoch Head of Junior School at Edgbaston College. Upon her retirement in 1973 the new Head Mrs. Audley Dowell Lee, changed the name of the school to Park Grove and reinstated the senior section up to GCE O level. Upon Mrs. Dowell Lee retirement the school was sold to Offa Schools Ltd. in 1987 who in 1988 renamed the school Edgbaston College, an independant school for boys and girls from 2 to 18, almost a centuary after it relented that title.
Later Syanley House became part of Calthorpe Estates and in 2003 was least to the Priory Hospital who spent some £ 3 million over nine months on its restoration and is now used as Consulting Suites
Thankyou for a massive 54,389,083 views
Shot 04.08.2016 Priory Hospital, Edgbaston, Birmingham REF 119-445
445 Stanley House, Erdington, Birmingham
Stanley House, Erdington, Birmingham
HISTORIC BUILDINGS _ BRITAIN + IRELAND
www.flickr.com/photos/45676495@N05/albums/72157662328716664
Stanley House is a Grade II listed building and now forms part of the Priory Hospital complex.
The House was built for Sir John Jaffrey who was born in Stirling, Scotland and was educated Glasgow Hospital. A rags to riches story he arrived in Birmingham at the age of 26 with his savings of £20. Starting work on the Birmingham Journal as well as the Weekly Post and was a correspondent for the Daily Mail, rising through the ranks, he later became President of the Birmingham General Hospital and a magistrate for two counties.
In 1885 he founded the Jaffrey Hospital at Stanley House, a 56 bed hospital, opened by The Prince of Wales (Edward VII) on 29th November 1885. As a hospital where the working man (and woman) were cared for, it was also for chronic cases transferred from the Genral Hospital.
By 1889 the Hospital had grown to large for Stanley House and was relocated. Stanley House then becoming the home of Edgbaston College founded by Mary Bailey, catering for girls from 5 to 18 years old and boys from 5 to 7, the school soon expanded and opened a boarding house on the other side of Bristol Road.
From 1913 to 1962 Stanley House became a boys Preparatory School under headmaster Mr Harold Shay, upon his retirement he sold the school to Mrs Mary MacGeoch Head of Junior School at Edgbaston College. Upon her retirement in 1973 the new Head Mrs. Audley Dowell Lee, changed the name of the school to Park Grove and reinstated the senior section up to GCE O level. Upon Mrs. Dowell Lee retirement the school was sold to Offa Schools Ltd. in 1987 who in 1988 renamed the school Edgbaston College, an independant school for boys and girls from 2 to 18, almost a centuary after it relented that title.
Later Syanley House became part of Calthorpe Estates and in 2003 was least to the Priory Hospital who spent some £ 3 million over nine months on its restoration and is now used as Consulting Suites
Thankyou for a massive 54,389,083 views
Shot 04.08.2016 Priory Hospital, Edgbaston, Birmingham REF 119-445