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Hanchurch Holiday Home

In the late 1890s, Cromartie the fourth Duke (1851-1913) and his wife Millicent (1867-1955) established Hanchurch Children’s Convalescent Home in Hanchurch Hills. The first Annual Report for the Home in 1899 states that Duchess Millicent had been ‘inspired with a strong wish to “bring a certain amount of health and happiness into the lives of those poor children who have never had the advantage of enjoying much of either”’.

The Duke paid the building costs of the Home on a site on the outskirts of Trentham Park that the annual report says was ‘breezy, sunny and bright – an ideal spot for the purpose.’ The Home provided comfortable accommodation for fifteen children.

You can read printed Annual Reports for Hanchurch Holiday Home from 1899-1912 at the William Salt Library. Follow the link below to learn more about the library and search the online catalogue.

http://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/leisure/archives/williamsalt/

Click here to see Hanchurch Holiday Home documents in the Sutherland Papers