AdminHistory | Norton Hall was donated to the four Sheffield Voluntary Hospitals by Colonel Bernard Firth in 1925, as a site where the services of the Royal Hospital, Royal Infirmary and the Jessop Hospital for Women would be amalgamated as a new General Hospital for Sheffield. Firth sold a further 112 acres of land for £25,000. The later decision to build a hospital in the city centre [Hallamshire Hospital] changed the initial proposal, leaving the Jessop Hospital to take on sole use of the site. The Firth Auxiliary Hospital opened in the converted hall as an auxiliary to the Jessop Hospital in October 1927. |