Lancaster Convalescent Home, Barnsley in the Great War

Lancaster Convalescent Home, Barnsley

St Edward's Church Vicarage, Racecommon Road, Barnsley became the Lancaster Convalescent Home for wounded soldiers in November 1914. St Edward's Church and Vicarage had been built in 1902 by Edward George Lancaster of Keresforth Hall, Barnsley in memory of his father Edward Lancaster. Edward George Lancaster was a local landowner, valuer and auctioneer who allowed the Vicar to live there rent-free. However, the Vicar found the Vicarage too large and expensive to live in and left to live in smaller premises. When war broke out in 1914 the Vicarage had been empty for a number of years and Mr Lancaster offered the Vicarage to the War Office to be used as a convalescent home for wounded soldiers for the duration of the war and to be run entirely at Mr Lancaster's expense. 562 men received treatment there during the Great War but no official records exist to tell us about the men who received treatment there.
The wounded men held fundraising concerts to raise money for tobacco and 'health-giving' drives in the countryside. Local newspapers regularly reported events at the Lancaster Home, and from these we are able to name some of the men who stayed there. A local photographer, Mr Lamb took photographs of groups of men and these can be found in the book 'Kingstone Remembers the Great War' produced by the Kingstone Heritage Group in Barnsley that meets in St Edward's Church. The Lancaster Convalescent Home was closed in March 1919 and once again became St Edward's Church Vicarage.

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