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The old Pontefract General Infirmary Former hospital buildings, now demolished for the new hospital, photographed in 1969. The original hospital in Pontefract was the Pontefract Dispensary which was established in Sessions House Yard in 1812. [ 1 ]
The old Pontefract General Infirmary on Southgate (pictured) was a general hospital; it is the place at which serial killer Harold Shipman began to murder his elderly patients. Beneath this building is an old hermitage , open to the public on certain days.
Pontefract Hermitage is a medieval hermitage situated below the old Southgate entrance to the General Infirmary in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England. It is a grade I listed structure. [1] The retreat consists of two chambers carved out of sandstone, side by side but on different levels.
Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust runs Pontefract Hospital, Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield and Dewsbury and District Hospital and community health services in Wakefield, all in West Yorkshire, England. Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield is the trust's largest. Pontefract General Infirmary seen in 1969.
Calverley Old Hall: Calverley: House: 14th - 16th century: 25 May 1966 ... The Hermitage, under the Infirmary. Pontefract: Hermitage: Medieval: 15 November 1988
There were archaeological excavations in 1963 (on the occasion of the proposed expansion of Pontefract General Infirmary), in 2011 and in 2012. [3] They served to locate the remains of several buildings of the friary and of a number of burials, [4] [6] as well as to illuminate the post-dissolution history of the site.
Pontefract is a town in the metropolitan borough of the City of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. In the town and surrounding area are 66 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, eight are at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. Most of the ...
In her sixth and final report, issued on 24 January 2005, Smith reported that she believed that Shipman had killed three patients, and she had serious suspicions about four further deaths, including that of a four-year-old girl, during the early stage of his medical career at Pontefract General Infirmary. In total, 459 people died while under ...