The original caption may contain language which is historic and which may no longer be considered appropriate. It has been retained in the record in the interest of historical accuracy.
The caption on the reverse of the photograph reads: “Sheffield Children’s Hospital country annex. The Sheffield Children’s Hospital has evacuated part of the hospital equipment and staff at Fairthorne, Dore, on the edge of the Derbyshire moors, and in this beautiful spot children are regaining health and the training school for children’s nurses is still at work. Picture shows nurses arriving at Fairthorne by brake from the city hospital.”
The caption on the reverse of this photograph refers to MED01/01/3247. Fairthorn was opened in 1934 as a holiday home run by the Sheffield Schoolchildren’s Holiday Association. It replaced Fairthorn Green, in Redmires, which had been open for 10 years previously. As a holiday home, it provided accommodation for 30 children. The home was requisitioned and used as an annexe to the Sheffield Children’s Hospital during the Second World War. It later became a children’s home, and then a home for people with learning disabilities run by the Home Farm Trust. Fairthorn was demolished in the early 21st century and retirement flats were built on the site, under the same name. See also MED01/01/3244-3248. This photograph was published in the Nursing Mirror, ‘Wind Swept and Snow Steeped – A Children’s Hospital on the Lovely Derbyshire Moors’, July 31 1943. High-resolution copies of this image are available for free for non-commercial use. Please Enquire to place an order.
This is part of the Series: MED01/01 Series of prints; within the Collection: MED01 Topical Press Agency Medical Collection
Source: Historic England Archive
Photographer: Topical Press Agency Limited
Photographer: Harrison, Norman Kingsley
Auxiliary Hospital, Childrens Hospital, Second World War, Health And Welfare
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