Historic hospital opened in 1869
SOME laundry and administrative staff will stay at the Infirmary site for a few months.
And it will continue to be used as a park and ride scheme for staff until 2014 when buildings will be demolished to make way for housing.
Although first built in Etruria, the then North Staffs Infirmary opened on the current Hartshill site in 1869. It was funded by public subscription and early management committees boasted names such as Wedgwood, Spode and Minton because the pottery owners wanted to keep their workforce heathy and productive.
By contrast the City General Hospital – formerly known locally as the London Road Institution – was built under the Poor Law and has its roots in the Victorian workhouse system.
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For more than a century they developed separately with NSRI staff often looking down their noses at colleagues at the City General.
They were eventually brought together with the formation of the single NHS trust now called the University Hospital of North Staffordshire.
Historian Ian Lawley, who has written a book on the hospital, said: "Hospitals are not museums and the Infirmary was way past its sell-by date."
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