Shaw Heath once treated thousands of older people and psychiatric patients on the NHS and was first a workhouse, opening its doors on Christmas Day 1841. It fell into disrepair and I believe there were plans to turn its partly listed buildings with clock tower section in to flats. Work has begun however there may have been lack of money as all work seems to have now stopped?
The Victorian workhouse known as The Grubber was once home to scores of Stockports poor and unemployed throughout...
Shaw Heath / St Thomas Hospital, Stockport - March 2014
The Victorian workhouse known as The Grubber was once home to scores of Stockports poor and unemployed throughout...
Shaw Heath / St Thomas Hospital, Stockport - March 2014