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COEDYGRIC HOUSE,GRIFFITHSTOWN PONTYPOOL
« on: Tuesday 21 February 17 19:35 GMT (UK) »
My grandmother died in Coedygric house in 1926.Can anyone tell me about this place,is it still there.Harry

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Re: COEDYGRIC HOUSE,GRIFFITHSTOWN PONTYPOOL
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 21 February 17 20:42 GMT (UK) »
Could this be the former Pontypool Workhouse, situated on Coedygric Road?
It had an Infirmary.

http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Pontypool/
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Re: COEDYGRIC HOUSE,GRIFFITHSTOWN PONTYPOOL
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 22 February 17 20:01 GMT (UK) »
thank you for your idea,i will have a look at the workhouse.

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Re: COEDYGRIC HOUSE,GRIFFITHSTOWN PONTYPOOL
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 22 February 17 22:46 GMT (UK) »
I have heard of other workhouses using a different name/address when referring to the Infirmary on certificates! ;D

Remember that this was pre-NHS, and probably the only hospital care affordable?
It doesn't mean that she was an inmate!
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Re: COEDYGRIC HOUSE,GRIFFITHSTOWN PONTYPOOL
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 23 February 17 19:21 GMT (UK) »
I think what you say about certificates could be right,But regarding affordability i would say she could not afford anything.
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Re: COEDYGRIC HOUSE,GRIFFITHSTOWN PONTYPOOL
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 23 February 17 20:48 GMT (UK) »
My father's birth certificate had a street address on it - someone on here knew why - it had previously been a lunatic asylum which had been turned into a maternity home for the post war baby boom

I think it was a bit of face saving for the families

In Pontypridd at the time a lot of the miner's families had a deal in that if they paid a penny a week they were covered for hospital care in the workhouse infirmary - wouldn't be surprised if the same didn't apply in Pontypool
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