Based on extensive research by John
Lowe, Estates Department, with additional material from Dr
Iain M Keeping, Consultant Physician, Mike Gough, Asst Director
of Human Resources and Keith Richardson, IM&T Department,
Countess of Chester Hospital - December 2002. This history is
under development - any suggestions, additions,
corrections, pictures, photographs and comments are most welcome.
Email to :keith.richardson@coch.nhs.uk
"An Outline History of the Evolution of the
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Trust (1755 - 2002) by John
Lowe, Estates Dept
" The Countess of Chester Estate from 1829 to 1999" by John Lowe, Estates Dept
"Chester Royal Infirmary 1755-1993 - Two Hundred and Thirty Eight Years of Hospital Life" - Researched by Harry Reynolds.
Harry Reynolds "Two
Hundred and Thirty Eight Years of Hospital Life" 1993 Sources:-
The Infirmary Management. Mrs.P Moody. Mr.M.Gough.
Present and past members of the Infirmary Staff. Chester City
Record Office. Chester City Library. Grosvenor Museum Chester.
Chester Chronicle. Maureen Nield author of “Rope Dance”
Documents etc referred to:— The Chester Royal Infirmary
Records. History of Chester. J.Hemirgway. Adams Weekly Courant
1754. Journal of the Chester an* North Wales Architectural,
Archaelogical and Historic Society. Vol .47.Miss .H.E.Boulton.
Georgian Chester 1660 — 1857. Chester Royal Infirmary 1756
— 1956. Miss Enid M Mumford. Journal of Liverpool Annuals of
Archaelogy and Anthropology. Vol. 6.Vol.8. Chester Newspapers on
Microfilm. And numerous documents and photograph’s
loaned by past and present members of the Infirmary Staff.
Especially Miss.L.Edwards who loaned documents and edited my
notes.
Staff Induction Slide Show of the mid 1990's complied by Mr Mike Gough, Asst Director of Human Resources.
Cheshire County Lunatic Asylum during the Nineteenth Century ......© Carol Coles 2003
"A History of Cheshire", University of London Vol III
"History of Chester" by Hemingway 1831 vol II
"Journal of the Chester & North Wales Architectural and Archaeological and Historic Society, Vol 47, The Chester Infirmary", page 9, by Miss H E Boulton
"The Book of Barrow, Cheshire". Published 1952. Compiled from the 1951 Scrapbook of the Barrow Women's Institute Committee - Mrs V A Arnold, Mrs J Beech, Mrs H Gamon, Miss A Jeffs, Mrs G Jones, Mrs L M Synge, Miss A Willis, Mrs W Wright.
"A History of the Ancient City of Chester". Published 1896. G L Fenwick
"Chester. A Portait in Old Pictures" by Karlyn Coulborn and Gillian Jackson 1987
"Upton-by-Chester" and " A World of its Own", by Bernard Wall 1984 and 1977
"Chester Characters" by Bernard Wall Published 2,000 based on article in the "Chester Standard" newspaper 1988 on Dr John Haygarth
For a short history of Ellesmere Port Hospital, see M. Brown, The History and Growth of Ellesmere Port Hospital, unpublished dissertation, Carlett Park College of Technology, 1979. A reference copy of the dissertation is held by Chester City Record Office.
"Ellesmere Port: The making of an industrial borough". PJ Aspinall, D M Hudson, R Lawton, Published by Ellesmere Port Borough Council 1982.
"A new survey of St Andrew’s Hospital, Denhall" - Cheshire Archaeology News, Issue 6, Spring 1999
35th Annual Report of the Local Government Board 1905-06 - Supplement - On Sanatoria for Consumption and Certain Other Aspects of the Tuberculosis Question Cd. 3657 1908 670 pp.By H. Timbrell Bulstrode M.D.
"Neston and Parkgate Remembered", by Jeffrey Pearson, published 1998
"Delamere" research organiser and editor, Frank A Latham, Printed by the Local History Group 1991.
"Frodsham" research organiser and editor, Frank A Latham, Printed by the Local Historians 1987
"Man's Imprint of Cheshire" Oliver Bott and Rhys Williams. Published by cheshire County Council. 1975
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