ColinB
gone but not forgotten
One of the properties burnt down during the Priestley Riots of 1791,was Moseley Hall.
It belong to a John Taylor who with Mr Sampson Lloyd founded Lloyds Bank in the 1770's
At the time the old Moseley Hall origanally built in early 1700's was almost falling down ,so it could be said that Riots did him a favour.After the riots John Taylor made a claim for £12,670 9s 2d compensation for the damage to his two properties Moseley Hall and Bordesley Hall,he settled after a two year wait for £9,902 2s 0d.He then took on John Stanbridge of Warwick to rebuild Moseley Hall.The building took four years and was completed in 1797.John Taylor then used the house as a family home.In 1884 the house was leased to Richard Cadbury,who, when the lease expired brought the house off the Taylor family at a cost of £16,450 for the house and twenty-two acres of parkland. He later moved to his new house at Uffculme ,and gave the Hall to the City to be used as a convalescent hospital for children.It was opened in 1892.It remained as a children's hospital for over seventy years.It was absorbed into the National Health Service on 5th July 1948,and closed as a children's hospital in 1967.I'm sure many will remember Moseley Hall Children's Hospital as the place were they had their tonsils removed ( me included).It then closed for eighteen months to enable a new three storey ward and service blocks to the west of the Old Hall to be built.When it was re-opened it became a geriatric hospital.Cadburys still retain the deeds on the property and it is leased to the NHS for a peppercorn rent
I started work there in 1979 in the Estates Department,and left 26 years later.The Old Hall as it was known was a wonderfull old building and still retained some of the old fittings and plasterwork hidden behind modern plasterboarding,you were never sure what you would find when removing it.The external stonework walls were up to two foot thick and many of the load bearing walls in the basement were up to 4 foot.As the Old Hall is now a listed building all work carried out has to be done within many restrictions.The Estates Workshop was situated within a courtyard that had been the Stable Block in the 1796 rebuild.In the 1968 alterations the Old Hall which had been the Childrens Hospital, the building was converted to a admin block and all the old wards ,operating theatre and kitchens were coverted to offices.Now as a community hospital,it continues to provide a service to the people of Birmingham,a service that it has supplied for over 100 years.
I have taken most of this information from a booklet, which was sold as a fund raising scheme during 1992,its centennial year,as a hospital.
Over the years people came and went but the old hall remained just the same.
Colin
It belong to a John Taylor who with Mr Sampson Lloyd founded Lloyds Bank in the 1770's
At the time the old Moseley Hall origanally built in early 1700's was almost falling down ,so it could be said that Riots did him a favour.After the riots John Taylor made a claim for £12,670 9s 2d compensation for the damage to his two properties Moseley Hall and Bordesley Hall,he settled after a two year wait for £9,902 2s 0d.He then took on John Stanbridge of Warwick to rebuild Moseley Hall.The building took four years and was completed in 1797.John Taylor then used the house as a family home.In 1884 the house was leased to Richard Cadbury,who, when the lease expired brought the house off the Taylor family at a cost of £16,450 for the house and twenty-two acres of parkland. He later moved to his new house at Uffculme ,and gave the Hall to the City to be used as a convalescent hospital for children.It was opened in 1892.It remained as a children's hospital for over seventy years.It was absorbed into the National Health Service on 5th July 1948,and closed as a children's hospital in 1967.I'm sure many will remember Moseley Hall Children's Hospital as the place were they had their tonsils removed ( me included).It then closed for eighteen months to enable a new three storey ward and service blocks to the west of the Old Hall to be built.When it was re-opened it became a geriatric hospital.Cadburys still retain the deeds on the property and it is leased to the NHS for a peppercorn rent
I started work there in 1979 in the Estates Department,and left 26 years later.The Old Hall as it was known was a wonderfull old building and still retained some of the old fittings and plasterwork hidden behind modern plasterboarding,you were never sure what you would find when removing it.The external stonework walls were up to two foot thick and many of the load bearing walls in the basement were up to 4 foot.As the Old Hall is now a listed building all work carried out has to be done within many restrictions.The Estates Workshop was situated within a courtyard that had been the Stable Block in the 1796 rebuild.In the 1968 alterations the Old Hall which had been the Childrens Hospital, the building was converted to a admin block and all the old wards ,operating theatre and kitchens were coverted to offices.Now as a community hospital,it continues to provide a service to the people of Birmingham,a service that it has supplied for over 100 years.
I have taken most of this information from a booklet, which was sold as a fund raising scheme during 1992,its centennial year,as a hospital.
Over the years people came and went but the old hall remained just the same.
Colin