In a message dated 04/09/2007 23:00:11 GMT Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Also of the Old Infirmary which I believe was called St Mary's? ______________________________________________________________________________ The infirmary was not called St. Mary's, that was the name of the Catholic School, opened in the old building in 1902. The Infirmary and Dispensary moved from Sans Street to the new building erected in 1822-24 to a design by Ignatius Bonomi on Chester Road in 1823. It had 20 accident beds, 12 fever beds, 28 medical beds, and a small operating room. Between 1823 and 1843 there were three outbreaks of cholera in the town and the medical staff were under great pressure. Many of its victims were buried in the Hind Street Burial Ground that is now under the ring road, the bodies being exhumed and re-interred in Bishopwearmouth Cemetery. The Infirmary moved to the site on New Durham Road in 1867. Stan