Convalescent Home Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital Pendlebury

The new Convalescent Home erected at Pendlebury adjoining the main hospital. Built and equipped by means of a grant from the trustees of the late Zachary Merton, it is on the site of a house which was owned by the late Sir Lees Knowles. The architects, Messrs J W Beaumont and Sons, Manchester, have arranged it so that the fullest use may be made of sunshine and fresh air. It has a pleasing and dignified exterior, with Jacobean bricks and Westmorland slate roofs. It consists of a dayroom looking south, with wings at the sides, each containing a dormitory accommodating twenty beds. On the north side it becomes a two storey building which comprises the children’s dining room and administrative rooms. In front of the dayroom and dormitories there is a wide terrace having a flat roof with skylights. The glazed windows on the south side of the dayroom reach to the floor, and can be opened and folded back, thus adding the veranda space to the room. French windows in the dormitories allow for cots the veranda. The floors are covered with wood blocks, and the walls and floors of the kitchen, bathrooms etc are tiled. Generally the colour of the dormitories is green and the day-room will be a comfortable and cheerful place. The home has grounds around it extending to about four acres and will be opened in February.  … Messrs C Musker Brothers Limited builders and contractors, Bingham Street Swinton, were the general contractors for the Convalescent Home. Some of the contracts they have recently carried out were extensions to the Eccles Secondary School, the Capitol Cinema, Didsbury, Eccles Fire Station, flats and shops for the Manchester Corporation and a new senior school at Pendlebury.

Reference           Manchester Guardian, 19  November 1935 page 6