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Yes Yvonne, it does seem to add up.

Thank you Gins - the probate deffinately rules out the 1963 Romford one

its the redbridge death

"Claybury Asylum, Woodford Green". TheTimeChamber. TheTimeChamber. Retrieved 6 December 2011.
Coordinates: 51.6031°N 0.0687°E
Categories: Hospital buildings completed in 1893Former buildings and structures in RedbridgeDefunct hospitals in LondonHealth in RedbridgeFormer psychiatric hospitals in EnglandHospitals established in 1893NHS hospitals in London

Got her!!

Probate calendar entry
ALLEN Elizabeth of (known address) London N18 died 23 June 1971

Thank you soo much everyone

:-D :-D :-D

She was a grand age!

Glad you found her

Great stuff! :-D

Although I've just been on the GRO trying to order certificates, but keep getting 500 - Internal server error message when clicking on the 'Order a certificate online now" - darned annoying. Hope it clears soon.

Gritty

I think that's a Microsoft error

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/311766

Its amazing how our memory lets us down - both my contemporay and I thought she died earlier than 1971

Hope the GRO/Microsoft sorts itself out soon for you

The asylum was in West Ham RD in 1893 - it was a good 200m outside of the Chigwell subdistrict of Epping RD, but, by the time Lizzie's 90, it was in Redbridge RD. The buildings were redeveloped, but the grounds are now a park.

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2710434 - the caption has 2 links.
The first points to http://www.wildessex.net/sites/Claybury%20Park.htm
The second is too long to post, but it, in turn, has links to a map of the park and to a brochure.

My guess at the location of the main building is OS coords 543350,191450 (or TQ 43350 91450 in the newer landranger coords)

Many thanks mgnv. Very interesting. I rather suspect she had developed Dementia if an Asylum was the best emergency placement.