Burton Upon Trent Infirmary
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Burton upon Trent Infirmary was a health facility in Duke Street,
Burton upon Trent Burton upon Trent, also known as Burton-on-Trent or simply Burton, is a market town in the borough of East Staffordshire in the county of Staffordshire, England, close to the border with Derbyshire. In United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011, it had a ...
,
Staffordshire Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation Staffs.) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. It borders Cheshire to the northwest, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, Warwickshire to the southeast, the West Midlands Cou ...
, England.


History

The facility, which was designed by architect Edward Holmes, opened in October 1869. The infirmary's first President was the
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who also had been the previous owner of the site. It was expanded to a design by
Aston Webb Sir Aston Webb (22 May 1849 – 21 August 1930) was a British architect who designed the principal facade of Buckingham Palace and the main building of the Victoria and Albert Museum, among other major works around England, many of them in par ...
in 1899 in such a way that the building extended right back to New Street. Following further expansion in 1924, 1931 and 1942, it joined the
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in 1948. After services had been transferred to
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, the ageing infirmary closed in 1993; the buildings were demolished in 1994 and the site was redeveloped for residential use.


References

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