A disused hospital near my childhood home.
My Mother worked here before my birth.
It’s the End of an Era for Historic St Thomas’s
October 29, 2003
Scores of well-wishers are expected to attend a service of thanksgiving to mark the closure of St Thomas's Hospital today. The hospital, in Shaw Heath, has treated thousands of older people and psychiatric patients on the NHS and was first a workhouse, opening its doors on Christmas Day 1841.
The Victorian workhouse - known locally as 'The Grubber' was once home to scores of Stockport's poor and unemployed throughout the Victorian era. And when in 1948 the site became Shaw Heath Hospital, later renamed St Thomas's, some of the older workhouse inmates remained on the site.
Dr Chris Burke, Chief Executive of Stockport NHS Trust, said: "For over 160 years, St Thomas's Hospital has served the people of Stockport. "During that time hundreds of dedicated staff have given their working lives to caring for patients in what are now old-fashioned and out-dated surroundings.
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