Dennis Williams
Gone but not forgotten
I was visiting the Priory Medical Centre not long ago, and have long admired the fabulous old building in the grounds that has been restored, and is now part of the Consulting Suites...so I went in and cheekily snapped a few pics of the History, which is on the wall...they are a bit iffy, but I think you can read most of the text. Basically it was built circa 1814 and became the home of JOHN JAFFRAY circa 1889, a scottish Newspaper magnate and Victorian benefactor. His House was known as PARK GROVE , it then it became Stanley Hose, a school, and finally, the Calthorpe Estate allowed it to be turned into a medical centre...
The interior still retains many of it's Victorian splendour...brilliantly restored...
This is from wiki and Colin B's great Blog on Birmingham Hospitals:
Sir John Jaffray, 1st Baronet (11 October 1818 – 4 January 1901) was a Scottish journalist and newspaper proprietor.
Born in Stirling, he moved to Birmingham in 1844, to work for John Frederick Feeney on the Birmingham Journal, and became a partner in it in 1852. Together they founded the Birmingham Daily Post, (now Birmingham Post) in 1857. He founded the Birmingham Mail with Feeney's son John Feeney in 1870.
He served as High Sheriff of Warwickshire in 1888 and was created a Baronet, of Skilts in Studley in the County of Warwick, in 1892, taking his title from the estate he had bought there. He was a Governor of the General Hospital and a committee member of The Children’s Hospital in Broad Street and the Women’s Hospital in Sparkhill. He had the Jaffray Hospuital in Erdington built with his own expense. The hospital was used as a geriatric and convalescent unit for the General Hospital from the 1950’s until its closure in 1991. It was finally demolished in 1995, and is now a housing estate.
The interior still retains many of it's Victorian splendour...brilliantly restored...
This is from wiki and Colin B's great Blog on Birmingham Hospitals:
Sir John Jaffray, 1st Baronet (11 October 1818 – 4 January 1901) was a Scottish journalist and newspaper proprietor.
Born in Stirling, he moved to Birmingham in 1844, to work for John Frederick Feeney on the Birmingham Journal, and became a partner in it in 1852. Together they founded the Birmingham Daily Post, (now Birmingham Post) in 1857. He founded the Birmingham Mail with Feeney's son John Feeney in 1870.
He served as High Sheriff of Warwickshire in 1888 and was created a Baronet, of Skilts in Studley in the County of Warwick, in 1892, taking his title from the estate he had bought there. He was a Governor of the General Hospital and a committee member of The Children’s Hospital in Broad Street and the Women’s Hospital in Sparkhill. He had the Jaffray Hospuital in Erdington built with his own expense. The hospital was used as a geriatric and convalescent unit for the General Hospital from the 1950’s until its closure in 1991. It was finally demolished in 1995, and is now a housing estate.
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