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my great gran was taken to a sanitorium in clayton bradford in 1940. she died there but i cant find where it was. does anyone out there know??? thw address id 1 highgate road clayton

Hi there Joanna!

Would suggest that your first stop should be the Registry Ofiice for the district of Highgate Road Clayton.
From the Death certificate, one would then find the name of the institution, and from that you should be able to find the district council offices responsible for the sanitorium, which would be able to give you further information re whether it was a private institution or not!
If a public institution then it would have come under a specific health authority. Word of warning, here, do not assume that the health authority is the same one responsible for the location of the institution.
However, the local records office, should be able to inform you from which area the inhabitants originally came from

Good luck!!

Margaret

Hi Joanna -- googling for that address shows it on a site listing Pudsey Trinity Wesleyan Burials, where it is identified as the Clayton Workhouse in the 1920s.

Looking at

http://www.workhouses.org.uk/

go to workhouse locations - Yorkshire W Riding - Bradford. I don't see anything specifically relating to Clayton, but it says this:


Records

* West Yorkshire Archive Service
http://www.archives.wyjs.org.uk/ablocb.html
— Bradford, Registry of Deeds, 15 Canal Road, Bradford BD1 4AT. Holdings include: Various minutes (1837-1930); Admissions and discharges (1857-1930); Births and deaths (1838-1930); Creed registers (1869-1930); Punishment book (1888-1930); Register of adopted children (1899-1930); etc.


Quite likely the workhouse had been converted to a sanitarium by the time your gr-grmother was there, given how all the records for the workhouse seem to end in 1930.