<roy.stockdill@btinternet.com> wrote: > I myself was born in St Luke's Hospital, Bradford, which until the late > 1920s was the union workhouse until it was converted into a general > hospital for the whole community. However, on my birth certificate it > makes no mention of the fact that it was a hospital, it simply gives an > address which makes it look as if it was a private house. I subsequently > discovered that many people born in Bradford had the same address on their > birth certificates and this went on apparently into the 1960s because the > local register office was sensitive about the fact that many people even > at that time regarded it as a stigma to be born in what had once been the > workhouse. There's nowt so queer as folk! Exactly the same thin happened in Sheffield, at the Northern General Hospital, Herries Road - formerly Firvale Workhouse. See for example http://www.sheffieldindexers.com/NorthernGeneralHospital.html I have a couple of dozen burials where this 2 or 12 Herries Road is given as the place of death. They range in date from 1928 to 1976. John. -- Please reply to john at yclept dot wanadoo dot co dot uk.