Opened as a charitable institution in 1899 and moved into a new building in
Buxton Road in 1903. The hospital was taken over by the National Health Service
in 1948/49 and closed down in 1964. It is located to the immediate left of St John's Church. The building is now a private house.
In 1919, a Mrs Bednall of Thorpe made it a beneficiary in her will.
Minutes and accounts exist in the Derbyshire records office 1897 - 1964.
The hospital in 1933
Formilly the Ashbourne Union Workhouse, see Peter Higginbotham's excellent web site www.workhouses.org.uk . for a full history.
This is shown on an 1900 map of Ashbourne, but that is all I know.
still to come...
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