St. Joseph's Convent Home for Aged and Infirm Ladles, Whalley Range (The Home)
1928 Extensions: St. Joseph's Convent Home for Aged and Infirm Ladies, Whalley Range (The Home)
Reference Builder 30 March 1928 Page 557
Reference Manchester Evening News 6 June 1979
1928 Private Chapel, St. Joseph's Convent Home for Aged and Infirm Ladies, Whalley Range (The Home)
Reference Builder 28 September 1928 page 536
St Joseph's, also known as “The Home,” was opened in 1905 by the Sisters of St Joseph of the Apparition in a Victorian house at the junction of Whalley Road and Russell Road as a Convent Home for Aged and Infirm Ladles. It appears to have operated as such until 1931. This was the only house of The Sisters of St Joseph of the Apparition, a missionary order founded by St Emilie De Vialar in Gaillac France in 1832, in the British Isles.
Large extensions, including a chapel were made in 1928 in the extensive rear garden of the Home bounded by Russell Road and Carlton Road, these changes being apparent by comparison of the 25-inch OS maps for 1915 and 1932. Initially the extensions were used as old people’s accommodation. However, suggestions were made in 1931 on a proposal to provide a Catholic hospital for the Diocese of Salford. It was thought that a start should be made on a small scale and that the home conducted by the Nursing Sisters of St. Joseph of the Apparition at Whalley Range, Manchester, might be suitable for this purpose. Further extensions and alterations followed including an operating theatre and in June 1937 the final wing of the hospital opened
The hospital did not join the NHS but continued as one iof the few private hospitals in the north of England. It was said to have some of the foremost surgeons of the time and a good reputation for care. By the mid-1970s only three nuns remained, and the hospital was purchased by BUPA in 1977 following which the hospital of 1928 was completely rebuilt. This in turn was demolished in 2019, the site still vacant in 2025.
