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Title: Fairfield Gen Hospital
Post by: ele002 on Monday 29 January 18 13:24 GMT (UK)
Would I be right in thinking that 380 Rochdale Old Rd., Bury, is/was Fairfield Hospital?

Thanks, Eric.
Title: Re: Fairfield Gen Hospital
Post by: stanmapstone on Monday 29 January 18 13:39 GMT (UK)
380 Rochdale Old Road, Bury was the address of the Workhouse,

In 1904, the Registrar General decided that where a child was born in the workhouse, there need no longer be any indication of this on the birth certificate. Instead, the place of birth could be recorded as an ordinary street address, either a real one or a pseudonymous one invented for the purpose. From around 1920, the same practice was later also adopted for the death certificates of those who died in the workhouse. http://www.workhouses.org.uk/addresses/b.shtml
The site is now known as Fairfield hospital and most of the old workhouse blocks have been replaced by modern buildings.
http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Bury/
Stan
Title: Re: Fairfield Gen Hospital
Post by: ele002 on Monday 29 January 18 16:34 GMT (UK)
Thought it would be.

Thanks for confirming it.

Eric
Title: Re: Fairfield Gen Hospital
Post by: Thomas48 on Sunday 17 July 22 13:27 BST (UK)
Where would burials of those who died in Fairfield Hospital be carried out. Did they have a particular cemetery or would the deceased be returned to their family to be buried.
Title: Re: Fairfield Gen Hospital
Post by: Maiden Stone on Monday 18 July 22 13:33 BST (UK)
Quote from: Thomas48 on Sunday 17 July 22 13:27 BST (UK)
Where would burials of those who died in Fairfield Hospital be carried out. Did they have a particular cemetery or would the deceased be returned to their family to be buried.

Do you mean people who died there when it was a workhouse?
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Added. Information about burials is in 2nd link about Bury workhouse in stanmapstone's reply. 1894 map shows burial ground which is believed to have been used until 1916. If an inmate died in the workhouse, next-of-kin, if known, was informed & invited to arrange a funeral. If this didn't happen, there was a "pauper's funeral" and burial in an unmarked grave. 
Title: Re: Fairfield Gen Hospital
Post by: Thomas48 on Thursday 28 July 22 10:36 BST (UK)
Thanks for you comment, I have now found out that the family do get first choice re burials
Title: Re: Fairfield Gen Hospital
Post by: StintonLomas on Thursday 28 July 22 20:49 BST (UK)
This old map shows an onsite burial ground.
https://maps.nls.uk/view/229406571

This approximately relates to the wooded area in this Gmaps satellite view
https://goo.gl/maps/cJvoswiUJxxeeMjD9