Hi everyone, new member here!  Hoping more experienced  people can help me out.    An ancestor's birth certificate records that she was born at 1 Warrington Road in 1929.  I believe this was a 'subtle' way of recording the address of the workhouse (on the site of what is now Whiston Hospital).  The baby's mother stated her address as her husband's family address in Widnes, although her husband is not on the birth certificate and the father is left blank. 

Does anyone know more about this workhouse in the late 1920s?  What might have been the likely fate of a baby born there during that period?  (I cannot trace what happened to her).  Am I right that it was still at workhouse at this time, rather than a maternity hospital?  I am trying to piece together what happened to them.  Would any records be available anywhere?