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Re: Hospital in Burntwood
« Reply #9 on: Sunday 07 August 16 21:24 BST (UK) »

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Burntwood Emergency Hospital was Burntwood Asylum. See reply#4

In 1939, the Ministry of Health's Emergency Medical Service Hospitals were set up for expected civilian casualties in air raids. Asylums were among the institutions that were incorporated in the scheme and Burntwood Asylum became one of them. http://www.bfhg.org.uk/Z-Burntwood-Asylum---St-Matthew's-Hospital.php

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Re: Hospital in Burntwood
« Reply #10 on: Monday 15 August 16 12:46 BST (UK) »
Hi
It was the Asylum,which is still there at Burntwood now posh flats.
If you visit the Burntwood history group here

http://www.bfhg.org.uk/Z-Burntwood-Asylum---St-Matthew%27s-Hospital.php

There is a photol of the soldiers on there and apparently civillians were housed in nissen huts.
I visited last week and it's really quite lovely up there.The pub a bit of a walk though.

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