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Broughton House in Salford admitted its first patient on 7 May 1917. Private Charles Fox from Higher Crumpsall was carried into the new hospital on a stretcher after being seriously wounded on the Western Front.

His new home had been bought in 1916 as part of an appeal by the East Lancashire branch of the British Red Cross to ease pressure on hospitals in the Manchester area.

It was one of five East Lancashire homes for the disabled to be bought and the only one to survive to the present day.

It now provides long term care for service men and women carrying on the tradition first created in 1917.

Private Fox whose legs had been shattered by shellfire would spend the rest of his life at Broughton House, dying in March 1944.

Location: Broughton House, Park Lane, Salford M7 4JD
Image: The first patient at Broughton House, Charlie Fox. Photograph courtesy of Broughton House.