The Hospital Records database is no longer being updated. We continue to make this information available for inspection and reuse but can no longer guarantee its accuracy. You can search Discovery to find records held here at The National Archives and in other UK archives.
The National Archives
Search our website
  • Search our website
  • Search our records
   
 
Montage of three nurses. All images © Wellcome Library, London. References: L0010490, L0018470, L0010789. Hospital Records Database
Welcome (Hospital Records home page) About Hospital Records
Search Help - opens in a new window
 
 
 

Details: Bury General Hospital, Bury

search again
 
 
Go to:  Name  |  Administration  |  Status/Type  |  Other info  |  Records

Name

  

Present name

Bury General Hospital 

Previous name(s)

Bury Dispensary Hospital (? - 1928 at the latest)
Bury Infirmary (by 1929 - 1948); ? also known as Bury County Hospital?  

Address

Walmersley Road Bury BL9 6PG (Since 1929) 

Previous location


Foundation Year

1829 

Closed

No 

Administrative authorities

Regional Hospital Board (1948-74)

Manchester 

Hospital Management Committee (1948-74)

Bury and Rossendale 

Regional Health Authority (1974-82)

North Western 

Regional Health Authority (1982- )

North Western 

District Health Authority (1974-82)

Bury 

District Health Authority (1982- )

Bury 

Current Trust

Bury Health Care NHS Trust 

Trust From

1994 

County (before 1974)

Lancashire 

County (1974-1996)

Greater Manchester 

County (after 1996)

Lancashire 

Status

Pre 1948

Voluntary

Post 1948

NHS, Trust

Type

Pre 1948

General

Post 1948

Acute

Other information

The Dispensary was established in 1829, the hospital opened in 1882.

Records can be found at:

Charities Commission

Record type

Date range

Administrative

1925 - 1938

   Nursing

1925 - 1938

Finding aids

Finding aids

Brief Guide(BG)

Location of finding aids

Details

WIHM: BG: 1981 UMIST survey of the North West.
notes

  Greater Manchester County Record Office

Record type

Date range

Administrative

1844 - 1971

   General

1844 - 1971

   Nursing

-

   Admission & Discharge

1944 - 1970

   Ephemera

1960 - 1960

   Other

1910 - 1950

Clinical & Patients

1942 - 1966

Finding aids

Finding aids

Brief Guide(BG)

Location of finding aids

Details

WIHM: BG: 1981 UMIST survey of the North West.

Notes

Nursing records, NRA Accessions to Repositories 2006
notes

  Bury Art Gallery, Library and Museum

Record type

Date range

Administrative

1882 - 1945

   Ephemera

1921 - 1921

   Private Papers

1931 - 1945

   Other

1882 - 1923

Finding aids

Finding aids

Brief Guide(BG)

Location of finding aids

Details

WIHM: BG: 1981 UMIST survey of the North West.
 
 
search again
 
The National Archives Newsletter Icon

Send me The National Archives’ newsletter

A monthly round-up of news, blogs, offers and events.

Sign up
About our privacy policy