Inverness.....

annpa · Post by **annpa** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 9:00 pm

What was at 82 Old Edinburgh Road, Inverness in 1934. One of my rellies died there and I noticed on the extract of the death reg that someone else died there a couple of days after. Was it some sort of hospital or a poorhouse? Both of them had their usual residence given as well.
Cheers
Annpa

LesleyB · Post by **LesleyB** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 9:12 pm

Hi Annpa
I wonder if this is it? - correct road, but number not given..
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~peter/workhouse/ ... ness.shtml

Inverness poorhouse was later known as Muirfield Institution. In 1946, an official report noted that the building had narrow central corridors and poorly lit but well ventilated wards. Its accommodation then included 54 beds for the chronic sick, 3 maternity beds, a nursery ward for 6 children, and places for certified mental patients. Under the National Health Service, the Institution became Hilton Hospital.
The buildings have now been converted into flats.

Best wishes
Lesley

TD

annpa · Post by **annpa** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 9:20 pm

Lesley
Thanks so much
It looks like it could have been the poorhouse. - so many of my dear departed left this life in the poorhouse, wherever in Scotland it might be.
Cheers
Annpa

WilmaM · Post by **WilmaM** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 10:11 pm

I had a look at the old maps site, put in "Old Edinburgh Road, Inverness " as the address and picked number 80.

The map centred on the address - and sure enough in the enlarged view that turned out to be the Poorhouse!

However, bear in mind that that was 1874, the death you are reffering to was in 1934 60 years later - a long time in health and social care etc.

Many of these places were taken over and converted into hospitals - though often the outside didn't change that much, and the old name remained in the memory of the older folk

The building would have been at the west side of the road at the junction between Old Edinburgh Road and Damfield Road.

Perhaps the Highland Health board archives would shed some light on when it was changed from a poorhouse ? or anyone with more local knowledge?

Post by **AndrewP** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 10:31 pm

Hi Annpa and Wilma,

On the 1932 Ordnance Survey map, it is still shown as the poorhouse.

All the best,

Andrew Paterson

annpa · Post by **annpa** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 1:15 am

Thanks to you all . It all goes to filling out the characters in one's family tree.
Cheers
annpa