Visit your local library
- trade directories will note when institutions opened and who ran them
- census records list people resident in the hospitals, prisons and workhouses at the time of the census
Visit the Sites & Monuments Record (SMR)
- files about buildings and sites
Visit the archives
- hospital admission registers, administrators' minutes and reports
- school log books and admission records
- prison inmates' records and governors' journals
Please note all records containing personal details are subject to certain closure periods.
Visit your local museum
- historic printed material
- photographs
