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Offline Luzzu

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Re: Lancashire Asylums
« Reply #9 on: Tuesday 25 January 11 22:19 GMT (UK) »
Hi,

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Thought you might find the "Safety in Numbers" document interesting if you are looking at Prestwich Asylum.  You can download the PDF from this link:-

http://www.manchester.gov.uk/downloads/download/4200/educational_resources

Also have you considered Rochdale Union Workhouse.  I think by 1911 it was a hospital or had a hospital attached as I had a 3 x gt grandfather who was in there in 1911 and his status was recorded as "patient".

www.workhouses.org.uk

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Re: Lancashire Asylums
« Reply #10 on: Wednesday 26 January 11 10:05 GMT (UK) »
Asylums seem to have been organised on a county-wide basis rather than locally.
I've found someone from Garston as an inmate at Whittingham near Preston, though Winwick (and maybe others) would have been a lot nearer.
Looking at ALSTON in south Ribble area, ALSTEAD and DONBAVAND/DUNBABIN etc. everywhere, HOWCROFT and MARSH in Bolton and Westhoughton, PICKERING in the Whitehaven area.

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Re: Lancashire Asylums
« Reply #11 on: Wednesday 26 January 11 21:09 GMT (UK) »
There was an asylum and workhouse at Oldham ( now the royal Oldham Hospital ) It is on Rochdale Road Oldham. Which is not too far from Rochdale. The Asylum later became the Elizabeth Martland Unit for the mentaly infirm. The building is still there I think. If this is of no help try writing to the Rochdale Infirmary I feel sure they will have archives. Jo
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