Springfield Convalescent Home Scotland Lane Horsforth was opened in 1900 by the Leeds Workpeoples Hospital Fund for their subscribers who paid one penny a week collected in mills, factories and workplaces all over Leeds. It was extended in 1906 and a stone laid by Fred Sparks to commemorate the occasion. In 1911 Lord Airedale the founder of the Hospital Fund died and a memorial sundial was erected in front of the Hospital in 1912. Springfield served as a hospital until 1950 when it changed use to a children's special school. Later in 1992 Yugoslavian refugees were housed there for a while. It later became offices for Xsiro and still is. The Sundial disappeared before it became a school, it would be nice to know where such an important memorial went?
