Bolton Royal Infirmary

The infirmary had its origins in the Bolton Dispensary established in Mawdsley Street in 1814.[2] A campaign for a larger facility was established by Canon James Slade in 1820[3] and a new building, designed by Benjamin Hick and built on land at Nelson Square donated by the Earl of Bradford, was completed in 1827.[2] A replacement infirmary, designed by Richard Knill Freeman[4] and sited east of Queen's Park[5] on Chorley Street, was completed in 1883.[2]

During the First World War the nurses' quarters were converted to create a military hospital.[6] Gertrude Herzfeld, the first woman paediatric surgeon, was senior house surgeon at the infirmary from 1917 to 1919.[7]

After services were transferred to the Royal Bolton Hospital, the infirmary was closed in 1996[1] and demolished in 1999.[8]

• Harrison, Margaret (1983). Bolton's Royal Infirmary.