Ladies playing croquet in the hospital's expansive sports grounds in the 1900s. Many other sports were played on the grounds, including lawn tennis, with a tennis net visible in the background

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A game of cricket on the hospital's cricket ground, one of the largest in the area

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A spectator watches a game of cricket on the hospital's cricket ground 

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A musical band prepares to give a performance on the bandstand by the cricket pitch

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A view of the players' pavilion at the side of the cricket ground. The main hospital building is hidden behind the trees

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Former medical superintendent Dr Allan Roy and head gardener Mr A Falconer working as bee-keepers in the hospital's beehive. Dr Roy was the medical superintendent between 1922 and 1953 and oversaw significant changes and expansion at the hospital

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Workers relaying one of the hospital's main paths

 Circa 1940s

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A tipper truck unloads the materials to create a new pathway in the hospital grounds

 Circa 1970s

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From the 1950s onwards, a scheme began to bring local work parties to Cheadle Royal to undertake various manual working tasks. The members here are seen building a new brick wall

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An elderly resident paints an old wooden bench as part of his rehabilitation treatment

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The former medical superintendent's house close to  Wilmslow Road. It was built in the 1860s and was known as The Gables. 

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A specialist residential treatment villa in the hospital grounds, now known as Elmswood. It was one of several villas built in the 1860s by the innovative young medical superintendent at the time called Dr George William Mould who saw the villas as being a way to provide treatment to some of the hospital's patients in a much more homely environment

Circa 1950s

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A specialist residential treatment villa in the hospital grounds, now known as Mayfield

 Circa 1950s

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Medical staff believed to be from the Salvation Army helping out at the hospital pose for a group photograph in the 1900s

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More than 30 of the hospital's nurses and matron pose for a group photograph in 1915

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Members of senior management pose for a group photograph in front of the main entrance in the 1930s

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Nurses and other members of staff pose for a group photograph in the 1970s

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Staff about to depart on an outing wait outside the gates of the main hospital driveway

Circa 1950s

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Senior staff in discussion outside Russell House, which is adjacent to the old chapel building

Circa 1960s

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