Stainforth early 20th century gallery / Mary Stainforth and her boys on a visit to Mundesley TB Sanatorium in 1911
Georgie, Mary, Moxon and Archie Stainforth at 'The Bungalow', Mundesley Sanatorium, Mundesley-on-Sea, Norfolk, September 1911. Picture taken by George Stainforth. George had contracted TB in the early summer of 1911 and spent many months at Mundesley. It seems that he made a partial recovery bdfore having a major relapse in 1913 when the TB went into his spine (Pott's Disease). After months in hospital in London he was then transferred to the Atkinson Morley Convalescent Hospital in Wimbledon in 1914, at which point they sold their family home in Dulwich and moved to Wimbledon. The subject of George Stainforth's tuberculosis was such a taboo that it was never spoken about; all these details where only discovered by author Gordon Stainforth a hundred years later while researching the life story of George Stainforth (jnr), who became a famous pilot and the first man to fly over 400 mph.
