Gladstone Hall, Woolton Wood, Liverpool

GLADSTONE TESTIMONIAL FUND - The money now being collected in Liverpool for the “Gladstone Testimonial” is to be expended in accordance with the wishes of the Premier in the erection of a “Gladstone Hospital” in connection with the Liverpool Convalescent Institution, which is about to be erected at Woolton Wood from the surplus funds collected in Liverpool during the distress in Lancashire occasioned by the civil war in the United States. Mr Thomas Worthington of Manchester has been selected as architect for the institution.

Reference           Manchester Guardian 20 March 1869 page 5