Haywood Charity Hospital, Moorland Road, Burslem

In 1885, George B. Ford, drew up plans for a proposed new hospital and in January 1886, a piece of land was purchased in Moorland Road adjoining the manufactory of Thos. Arrowsmith & Sons Limited at a cost of £425 6s 10d. The successful tender for the building work was submitted by Mr. William Cooke in February 1886 and on 27 July 1886 the foundation stone of the 'Richard and Howard Haywood Charity Hospital' was laid by Mr. W.S. Shoobridge, who had inherited the Haywood estate.

The hospital was opened on 20 June 1887, the 50th anniversary of Queen Victoria's accession and the ceremony was performed by the Mayor, Alderman Spencer Lawton. Initially the building comprised two wards on the ground floor, each with four beds, a special one-bed ward, an operating room, a mortuary, a surgery, administrative rooms and on the first floor there were five nurses' bedrooms that could be used as occasional wards. Built of red brick with stone dressings, the Haywood family crest was incorporated into the building. In 1887 the final cost of the building (including fixtures and furniture, and the laying out of the grounds) amounted to £3,220 16s 4d. Subsequent donations including £1000 in 1890 and £500 in 1892 allowed further extensions such that by 1907 the hospital could accommodate 31 patients.

A gift of £1,000 by Matthew and Colonel William Warrington Dodson “to benefit the sick poor of the Town” was used to add another storey containing two wards with another 12 beds. At their opening ceremony in February 1891 James Maddock JP offered £500 for separate burns wards which opened in November 1892. These increases in ward accommodation led to the spending of a further £3,000 on other improvements, a lift, kitchens, bedrooms, bathrooms, a dispensary, out-patients' department, remodelling of the operating theatre, and the removal of the laundry and mortuary to the rear. Towards the cost there were donations of £500 from W.E. Robinson and his family, £250 from W. Tellwright and legacies of £250 from W.T. Till and £1,000 from Mrs. Bates of Endon. The works were carried out in 1896 and 1907.

The Haywood Hospital closed in 1930 with the patients being transferred to Stanfields Sanatorium.