Former Trafford hospital where a Bee Gees star was born is to be demolished

A former Stretford Memorial hospital and clinic that stood for many years will be demolished making way for a new residential development.

Councillors at a Planning Meeting met to discuss the situation with Stretford Memorial Hospital (Basford House) on Seymour Grove and all agreed it should be demolished.

Stretford Memorial Hospital has been vacant for 9 years after the NHS vacated in 2021 and in that time the hospital has been vandalised.

The hospital though has some history to it built in 1860 then became a auxiliary hospital in the first world war and was opened with 28 beds in 1914, it then was taken over by the NHS in 1948 and in 1958 Bee Gees star Andy Gibb was born at that hospital and the end came when all services transferred to Trafford General Hospital.

Sadly in 1988 Andy Gibb died of a heart condition aged just 30.

In its last days open the hospital was mostly used as an out patients and clinic.