I've just had a look at the Google map of Rotherham. The town centre is unrecognisable from my childhood and even looks different from 10 years ago. I just wondered if the workhouse had become one of the (former) hospitals, to which the answer is clearly "no".
That explains it. I think I was an outpatient at Moorgate Hospital once. I had my tonsils out at Doncaster Gate Hospital ( a gruesome experience in those days).
As far as I know the only part of the old Moorgate hospital which still exists is a building which became the Florence Nightingale pub in 1983.
I also had my tonsils out a Moorgate hospital a memory which still haunts me to this day.
My grandfather was one of the first patients to die in the new district General hospital which opened in March 1978. Prior to that a lot of his generation were frightened to go into Moorgate hospital because it had previously been the Workhouse. I think there was a fear that if you went in you didn't come out - and for many old people this was often the case.
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