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Originally Posted by MovedtoBolton

Forgive me if this has been mentioned before, but after watching The Village on TV I started browsing t'internet and stumbled across the fact that there was an Auxilliary home hospital in Baxenden. Now I knew about Elmfield Hall but knew nothing of the Baxenden unit. Does anyone know where it was located?

I was at one time an isolation hospital. all the land in that area has gone, Hollins School now covers most of it. The biggest military hospital in Lancashire was Queen Mary's at Whalley. it had its own railway siding, yet its grave yard does not have as many graves as one would expect for a military hospital, most of those who died were claimed by relatives and buried in their home town. Several local men died there in 1918, quite a number of them were home on leave, fell ill, reported to Whalley for treatment & died of flu, some of them are in Accy Cemetery.