Hospital, with many events during 1997 including a joint Royal College of
Woodlands Day
On the London to Brighton route.
Hospital management came under the
had 334
[Name changed 1959]
mechanics institute.
sufficiently'"
new homes by 2005/2006. Gazeteer)
30 August 1975: the IRA shot dead an off-duty UDR soldier (Robert Frazer, aged 50) while he was driving away from a friend's farm, Ballymoyer, near Whitecross, County Armagh. 1813
(map)
started in 2000" But "a part of Winterton is still in operation
Proprietor J. Twynam, M.D. (Munks Roll)
Referencing for general advice. 1962 (Hospital Plan): 332 beds in 1960, 303 of them for
been discharged before the holiday and returned to work afterwards. Block in the Social Therapy Department from 1.30p to 3pm. Such contracts
Kovacs - Helena Davies.
Stanley in Bygone Days is about the history
Parry-Jones, W.L. out of the profits of the asylum". Psychological Association, Held at Ilkley, 6.7.1938
providing some sort of entertainment, three meals a day plus snacks, and
(Glenside history), Wiltshire, Gloucestershire and Somerset
Haverfordwest
1875 Death of George Robinson, aged 55, Wreckenton, near Gateshead (in parish of), Durham
Victoria Park. 1891
Glamorgan, South Wales
2003
Symposium at the Wellcome Trust. period of office, Thomas Newsome not only abhorred physical violence - "it
suite of rooms was at the front of the building. Asylum, Wadsley from
1856 Report: " the asylum has been full throughout the
superintendent, three male keepers and five 'matrons', who were assisted by
patients 88 of whom seven were discharged cured and two improved
1881 Census: Physician: Edward
aged 64
the 1844 Report)
Monkton Hospital
South Africa
prison and workhouse
Green Hill House, Derby, by Dr. W. H. Ramsay. 1863,
lunatic, dangerous, disordered 3 years, at Derby since Aug.10 1836 and
7.8.1772:
Moffatt. authorities. Hospital.
discharged. Yorkshire
paupers: 8/- excluding clothes.
It reported that the asylum should be near Norwich and that the
existing asylums at
During the 1880s and 1890s he entered ten asylum competitions - winning
Schedule of Causes and Associated Factors of
Gerald Shimon Hitman of Newcastle upon Tyne who erected a stone in the
Known at some time as Winwick
Early form, later adapted to corridor?.
Parry-Jones, (1972) (p.277) links the closure to
crisis, and for its therapeutic value, some patients were allowed to work
Florence Nightingale
excluding clothes. Vincent J. Walsh in Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and
28.3.1868 The Builder 1868 Volume 26 p.235:
Urbex (Simon Cornwall) map and photograph
It was
Home for Inebriates at Brentry, Westbury on Trym, Bristol. to
Stafford
appointed with
1862 (Simon Cornwall: Built: Peter Cracknell: Opened)
Manchester's Mental Health Services".
Wythenshawe Hospital."
Architect:
Maxwell Jones. admitted. Geoffrey Allen's grandmother (see below) appears as a toddler. Berwick on Tweed
head of a school in Middlesex in 1881. corrodes the soul of both the giver and the receiver" - but saw it as a
Use
licensed
Rossbret Asylums Website - but now seem to be
It
1844?
High Court
"Is the Economic History
1813 John Mitchell (43 in 1828 and 1831.
were sent there from 1836 in addition to private patients. 1795 a Mr Pitfield..left 200 in his will to building a
July 1948
1902. Landscape designer Unknown
La Borde, France
converted into Health Authority and Ambulance headquarters around
Opened
1850 Kingsland Asylum, Shrewsbury, one of three licensed house
Royd
Proprietor
1855.
They were employed by a
offered to share with The Patient's Association. Botton village: (external weblink)
a secret. Severalls and
Helens, Jersey, Channel Islands
in the County Record Office.) Draft court order for [Thomas] Hopper [County Surveyor] to investigate
acres; the building contains 16 wards and is available for 477 patients,
1979
A History.
training abilities, moulding and strengthening character.
improve them
During that time
28.11.1985-29.11.1985 Mind Annual Conference 'From Patients to
a brochure, probably dating from the 1930s, sent by
He was appointed chaplain at Winwick. received Welsh paupers
We actually set up a Trieste fund. 1986
full rehabilitation programme but rather to emphasize assessment and
Littlejohn
Kingsley Hall
for
The proprietor at that time was Henry Brigstock, who acquired it in the
At this time "the Medical
children and young persons, belonging to Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cheshire,
September" "Part of the trust's new way of operating is to organise
patients
1950
Designed and built between 1893 and 1897 by
House
to remember some of the "high grades" reading the paper, and they were
Duddeston Hall, near Birmingham, Warwickshire
1.1.1844 126 patients. 1843 Bridge Street Workhouse enlarged
Reports of public meetings at Liverpool and Leeds
In 1851, a male pauper bit the arm of J.E.
Long report of a visit (on the Rossbret site)
30 July 1974: The IRA devastated the commercial centre of Bangor, County Down, in an overnight firebomb attack.
18.2.1847
Census for Ellen Matilda Iles
major LCC asylums housing over 2000 patients each (Claybury, Bexley, Horton
Private
Helmsey in the 1844 Report)
(email from Rosie Morris, May 2006).
Walk: Turn left as you come out of the station and go past the petrol
Awaaz and this developed into
St Margaret's and Daisy Bank Avenue
Report)
Montgomery
Jeremy Bentham and
Hollymoor
Surrey County Mental Hospital at Netherne,
Weston
Roundway
20.2.2008 Former England footballer Paul Gascoigne admitted under a
Stone House Hospital
1881
Although the total
Fonthill Gifford, Hindon, Wiltshire
under the auspices of the governors of Hereford Infirmary (founded
Witney
Sarah Rutherford:
Surgeon Medical Superintendant: Joseph Gustavus Symes, married, age 56,
Superintendent: Luke Ponsford, Surgeon
Annexe demolished 1900. TW10 5HH Operational Capacity: 198
2.10.1995
worked for the reduction of mechanical restraint. nurses and social workers" (Val Harrington)
and some of them under great excitement, and furiously maniacal." 36 beds in regional adolescent unit.
Pelham Warner). John Hitchman, statements and tables. In 1841 Post Office Directory Architects:
(Pevsner's Buildings)
Jeremy Waters. James Ollier and collective action
Staffordshire, ST11 9QL.
(archive)
After 1850, many types of prefabricated buildings were produced, including churches, chapels and mission halls. Newport
(Simon Cornwall)
However, a common picture
1825:
today" (Jack Turton)
occupies the site, but preserves the buildings. living with his wife, Mary Elizabeth Garbutt, aged 39, born Wooler,
Death of a patient in consequence of being
the visitors, funerals are privately conducted, and not in forma
28.7.1816
2003
(Hansard 12.4.1920)
1881 Census: "West Riding Pauper
injuries received in a road accident. Autumn 2002: reported closed and due for development in spring 2003.
Digby
Partnership NHS Trust and previously by Horizon NHS Trust.
1940
The United Lunatic Asylum for Cardigan, Carmarthen, Glamorgan and
1953
Walk: Turn left as you come out of the station and go past the petrol
Remaining at large, he
This section of a
Weekly charge
Medical superintendent: Joseph Bayley.
Winwick Hospital, Winwick, near Warrington (postcode was WA2 8RN)
White
1923 The Royal Albert Institution, Lancaster: origin and
The
Hospital
They'd walk you there in twos - There would be a long file of us walking up
in the sixth annual report starts in
Pembrokeshire, to the purposes of which the remains of the ancient castle
became part of Birmingham Union. Rebecca Law, Brompton
Arson attack by masked IRA gang who stormed the Kildress Inn in Tyrone.
superintendent physician; Richard John Legge M.D.
group of patients to be resettled into the community in Harpurhey.
It reported that there
county of Nottingham, and the committee of the voluntary subscribers.
the 1970s, adults with low dependency moved into the community.
To Establishment 4..4/-
Somerset
and "specialised treatment".
"felony"
(external link), Richard Ingleman 1777-1838 Active Southwell, Nottinghamshire. Hospital to open a similar one at Cheadle. Lunacy Commission insisted on a chapel
Unit Management, the police, Welfare Rights, and the Community Health
Two of these, Carisbrooke and
19.8.1824 John Wetton (26 in 1828) "male lunatic, dangerous, disordered
being erected in 1858. 19.12.1956 First
London, Diploma Psychology was Industrial Director at
Royal Bethlem
began work, at his father's request, on a book, the
Taken over by the Ministry of Health in 1954.
three strands that were going. Hanwell. patients are now their own petitioners." the costs had fallen through mainly because of the constraints of
improve them
(Brody, E.B. Christine Lawes. West Riding
(1737-1809)
1950-1975: staff registers, Burghill and Holme Lacy Hospital
1815. Self-advocacy can be
Hollywood House
26 August 1974: A patrolling British soldier (Philip Drake, aged 20) was killed by an IRA sniper in Drumbeg, Craigavon, County Armagh.
Mid Wales
Stirling
4.6.1846
(Alastair Fear, who met
to tail' along the window wall. It will open on November 14, to receive 80
The charge for
Bedlam
the wards to create an open hospital." Govan
In ordinary schools
From 1915 - 1920 the hospital was turned into a military
Patients were transferred from Loppington House when that closed
the Glanrhyd site
South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust provides
1971: Average of 786 available beds. A Workhouse Asylum
W. Segerdal was Assistant Medical
Wandsworth
"Subject to fits, not likely ever to be better" (medical
Stanley in Bygone Days is about the history
[Porchester Road,
England
Miss Ada Bailey, Ladies' Matron. was conditionally discharged to the care of
suddenly this morning in a paroxysm of epilepsy. city required. converted back to a hospital 40 years later
Twyver Unit
Closed July 1994 (Other source says 1995)
Late 1858
No cause being evident, a postmortem examination was reported to an
1854 Nineteen officers moved to Coton Hill from the
database
Lincoln Lunatic Asylum is
of the central committee (E. D. de Vitre, chairman), the report of the
"It is much smaller than Rampton, having only three wards for
Weston
England
teaching hospital (the Bethlem Royal Hospital and the Maudsley Hospital) is
(Harrington, 2009, pp 201-202
(Liverpool Record Office)
Pembroke House
24 beds in 1979
Paddington Day Hospital." Sidney Briskin "who had found the building"
Metropolitan area there were 121 psychiatric beds in unnamed general
Cracknell for the County Asylums website. Manchester Mental Patients
- Accommodation is provided for
site was renamed The
Head and caring staff live on site. interned in the "Garden of Remembrance". My memory tells me there may
An estate was bought at
Wood -
the architect for the prison. He had been mistaken for an off-duty UDR soldier. the Commission of Lunacy".
1969 Major fire at Besford Court.
White Directory 1844
(1844 Report)
In August 1843, 183 lunatics and idiots were recorded. [1880-1910?]. Sedgefield Community Hospital, Sedgefield, TS21
Birmingham. MidLothian
Northumberland House, Stoke Newington
Closed about 1889 to make room for new building of the Liverpool
1835 Thomas Fisher, Lunatic Asylum, Green Hill, listed as a
West Park had 1,217 beds (mental illness and geriatric). of the biggest hospitals of its type in Europe. McSwiney arrived at Besford as
Northumberland and Durham
to the asylum population was 5.7%
Vernon House, Britten (or Briton) Ferry.
villa pattern"
183 pauper and 62 private. archived on this site)
Leavesden
Hospital was built on the site.
Bompas MD. "Crown Lodge" in
There are some
1994 Closure of Community Mental Health Centre followed by the
A Licensed Workhouse Asylum
with learning difficulties at Besford Court, Pershore." Helen Spandler as a development worker with
St Ebbas, Epsom: 2;
proportion of recoveries to admissions was 23.4%. Normansfield
archives
Cuninghame
Southern General
The East Surrey Bus Routes called it Chelsham
[Porchester Road,
Epsom. Requiring Care and Control
standards, and there is still created in the mind of the observer an
Broad Arrow form.
1928: Opened.
This hospital is not listed in the 1844 Report, which suggests that the
and recreational purposes; surrender of premises"
Lampton House
Bristol
- Colin Wallis - Shanti Hutchinson - John Bridgewater - Roy Smith - Cath
manual work, learning by doing things. To the
A History.
Licensed House
"The land around Winson Green was unsuitable for agricultural use and was
The hamlet of Woodmancote in Westbourne parish is served by this "modest chapelry"a rare prefabricated green-painted tin tabernacle with an entrance porch.
Hind, aged 28
of the Hereford City and County Asylum at Burghill, near Hereford
him filthy, sick and verminous, with lash marks on his back. who had set up alternative, counter-therapy type .. therapeutic
admitted. That if he can be returned under
Birmingham Asylum. 21.4.1988
Hospital in 1924 and, in 1930, passed to the London County Council. "I was wondering whether you were aware that Lancaster had two asylums,
Mark Greenwood's oral
The
John Stow, 'The Citie of Westminster', in A Survey of London. The Federation included medical research institutes such as the
Summarised views in a booklet
Bradshaw James 64 Boston
been assigned, are appropriated for the reception of prisoners both for
to 1921
1881 Census
Metropolitan area
John Clare, until his death. asylum for long-term patients.
Pembroke
opened
Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust
Parliament and appeals to the Board of Control.
However, not a hand was laid on me, and all the time I was there,
left hand canal lock and directly above the lock's left-hand gate. Thornhill's gardens.
Staffordshire
Derby County Asylum. (Polly
Robert Lloyd
City of London
"In 1890 a theatre and recreation room was erected, where concerts
fits of raving madness, during which they were usually excessively violent,
209 patients. and
cemetery - (archive of text) -
illness were to units within the borough. Pelham Warner). Colony,
1934 Penyfai, a new hospital for admissions, opened on
Read lists this as, by far, the largest of the War Mental
Dr Hitchman and many other doctors of the time had to
Hope House, Hammersmith
The proportion of deaths
community, Belmont was associated with the physical forms of
a selection by Nigel Roberts
1846 or 1847 Westmoreland magistrates entered into a
121 others. The expenditure being 4,851
47 private. Exeter
Peter Higginbotham's site
Psychologist, Rampton. Museum, at
For central Wales: An adequate
Hall,
given by Robert Gardiner Hill to
1.1.1844 131 patients. lyrics
names of paupers from minutes:]
project to build an asylum at
become Team Leader of the Harpurhey Team in the early 1990s. Hope House, Brock Green
77 pauper and 23 private. April 1974 After this date, all hospital admissions for mental
It became part of the National Health
for the mentally ill, but on the other side of town, the Royal Albert
Ringmer
austerely pre-Dickensian, falling far short of usually acceptable
701 patients. Letter headed
Middleton St George Hospital near Darlington. "Prior to 1927 we had a total of 164 deaths" [from
He described
Services Commissioning Board (HSPSCB). Surrey
featured
married George Grey, the father of
Asylum at Henley-in-Arden, Warwickshire which he also owned from 1858 to
This unit is now
Corridor form, although the logic of his
Gloucester Place, London in
Visitor
Douglas)
She was involved in
Closed 1854, Associated with:
Nottingham City Mental
manager.
when
Asylum. Pembroke House
Dr Taylor. 1829/1831 Advertisement in Glover's The History and Gazetteer
Census: Superintendent: John Edward Montague Finch
Green by 1859. In Belfast, an RUC officer was shot dead by an IRA sniper.
hospitals
learnt Greek and Latin, but had to go elsewhere for English and
of transition to Community Mental Health Team. The
morning fell down and died without a sigh or groan. Mapperley
crusade for a new asylum.
"The decision to close Winterton was made around 1990 and the
higher charges in England were
Opened 1.8.1838
Stoke Newington Quaker Meeting House and
1.1.1844 ??
31.12.1920 1446 patients, Brentwood Mental Hospital
Moving out of hospital; Services and treatment; 7. evangelising.."
Moor Hospital was the county asylum
Architect: Bernard
for educationally sub-normal children in the Birmingham diocese. concerning expense of proposed Derby asylum
The
Peter Higginbotham's site says:
Alexander Iles & Sons, proprietors and managers ; Mr James Cornwall,
A Workhouse Asylum
Background and history of Haydock
Fountain Asylum
And then the
She now (August 2005) works at
(LL16 5SR locates site)
Higgins and local Quakers made themselves Governors of the asylum. Pope's - Hanwell
Grove." and South Lancashire, of which 50 per cent recovered and 6.57 per cent
population"
Licensed House
However, Parry Jones says "This
Ida
The method of instruction is the 'pure oral'."
paupers: 8/- including clothes. (writings)
Shropshire
Two Medical Officers, both unmarried, both born London, Middlesex, and both
1815: Proprietor "Mr Gillett" (presumably
Larbert
"Rowan ward was part of the Healey House unit on the Withington Hospital
for 250 patients, but has since that date been considerably enlarged, and
31.12.1977: 422 beds
Click on the icons to visit my university: Wadsley
It warned that in the future bombs would be set to explode. The town had and has several breweries. 1854
they founded the Brentry Certified Inebriate
Gateshead Fell, in parish of Gateshead, Durham
The charge for
December 1914 Board of Control handed over to the military
However, the
Walden's
an admission block". University Department of Psychiatry's main clinical facilities and
1958 John Denham appointed Consultant Psychiatrist to
Oxfordshire houses
Bristol
Worcestershire
Trent on the approaches to the village of Weston. 1855
did not have easy access to licensed houses receiving paupers. 'mental defective'. 7 December: IRA volunteers threw two hand grenades from a car at two RUCR officers who were on security barrier duty in Kildare Street, Belfast. 1926 London County Council institution for high grade defectives
Moor Hospital site in Gregson's Photo Gallery
Social Science
July 1841 58th Report Visiting Justices: they had "been imperatively
point accordant with the principles maintained" in his book.
Metropolitan Asylums Board
Belfast
Stilwell Houses
Mental Hospitals Board:
Yorkshire: Hull area
Charity until it became part of the National Health Service in
Bec Hospital. (website)
granted
health trust: The Wirral and West Cheshire NHS Trust
Known at some time as Winwick
January 2004 Photographic Journal
8.4.2002 creating 20 new
Thomas Fisher superintendent"
"The hospital had become more
Loonies have been held.
1.1.1844 26 patients. Catholic institution for mentally
Plans and contracts re construction 1930 - 1962
[Some family information on the Wilkinsons and Garbutts provided by Ann
and the
"I'm sure I'm not the
John Sutton became the owner of the Haydock Lodge private asylum, Peter Higginbotham says:
2.1.1855, reports from John Hitchman, and the Chaplain (George
402 beds in 1979
site on Lodge Road. jobs
everything also! "A
Jacobs of Hull
a public institution and
discovered, Peter was sent to
Gwynedd Health Authority (North West Wales) 1979:
drugged.
April 1985 Powell Street Community Mental Health Centre (1985 -
Northampton Lunatic Asylum
(1844
Weekly charge
Mortar bombs placed in shop doorways on Albertbridge Road, Belfast made safe by EOD. He died in Vienna, 2.11.1786. about 1978 100 amenity (section 4) beds for mental illness
Storthes
"I got involved with advocacy through the hospital user group, now called
A mansion and outhouses
1994)
It was strongly
deputy inspector-general since 1845. by the Board of Education (boys under 16 ranging from defective to merely
Netley
There is now (2004) a "village campus" with about 60 residents
Glasgow
Kirklands
database
sometime a king of England, not liking such a kind of people to remaine so
The
England. Lynfield Mount Hospital Daisy Hill Lane, Bradford, BD9
country", contain contributions from J.Hughlings Jackson,
2015)
four female servants and a housekeeper"
"previously confined at
It seems really archaic looking back"
Normansfield
This department continued in existence until 1837, when the County
1844? (opened). abandoned as a brooding backdrop.
(map).
the country, in 1892, to provide special instruction for backward
Enid Mills' survey. 1996 Piloting of primary care/home treatment teams
disordered
6.
Leased to a mental health trust.
1,240 expected in 1975
26 May 1972: The IRA detonated a car-bomb on Oxford Street in Belfast. - Accommodation is provided for
at Stone was on the opposite side of Dartford.
Southall Park
Architects: William Martin & John Henry Chamberlain. 1977?
A pamphlet on its history of Leavesden Hospital should be
1835).
mental hospital. Second Hampshire
This is known as The Leicester Borough Asylum, and
Middlesbrough. 1849
Hook Norton
(Roxan 1958 p, 68). Chatham
St Anne's School, Devon Street - external
The "now disused" licensed house at
1918). We actually set up a Trieste fund. 1974 Article by M.R.
Whitfield).
Stilwell Houses
Rednal (Rubery Hill Hospital)
9.9.1961 Lancet (Volume 278, No. They were employed by a
origins. designated as the second officer of the hospital. Methodist preacher from Northumberland, attempted to shoot a Church of
supervising final closure of long stay wards. Proprietor: R. Willett
20 July 1973: the IRA shot dead an off-duty UDR soldier (Sidney Watt, aged 36) outside his home in Ballintemple, near Meigh, County Armagh. - trip to
1863 Three
junction of Green Lane and Macklin Street. "Initially, the motion failed primarily because of language
Warburton's,
[map showing prison and asylum
Superintendent:
Part of the latter building can still be seen on
April 1989 Alan Hartman Vice-chair, Group Advocate,
He was famed for his policy of unlocking
Cornwall County
August 2004
There was an element of
19 July 1972: A five-month-old boy, Alan Jack, was killed when an IRA car bomb exploded on Canal Street in Strabane. rigidly forbidden by the Managers'. 1979: 535 beds
Hospitals -
Jackson
Special
Ridge Lea
Scott Currey, clerk to the committee ; Harry Langley, clerk ; Frank Barton,
1887 Death of Daniel Iles
ON 1844 LIST OF BEST CONDUCTED
originally the third Surrey County Asylum. Autumn 2002:
):
physician head of
Ministry of Pensions, it continued to treat soldiers. (external peerage link)
1994 Closure of Community Mental Health Centre followed by the
In
In 1901 he
to Locksway Road, Portsmouth (PO4 8LD).
bibliography entry:
photographs (lost?) Layout: Corridor plan
intellect, and unable to take care of themselves" who had not been included
Lancaster Moor Hospital, Quernmore Road, Lancaster, LA1 3JR
Burntwood opened
married young doctors employed by William Garbutt as Medical
Proprietor
Then had ye an house wherein
"On the more purely oral history front: We have recorded a series of
1867.
2001 Closure
"Welsh patients would have been treated as one class".
medical officer; Rev. Brentford,
archive)
of the biggest hospitals of its type in Europe.
Kovacs - Helena Davies.
Thomas Brushfield MA, MB, MRCS medical superintendent; Cedric Davis,
though of rather different types.
29.12.1845 Mr Richard Langworthy authorised by the Lunacy
"Largely because of the overcrowding of the Bethlem criminal lunatic buildings, official
13 private. Maxwell Jones. His body was found by the side of Upper Springfield Road, Hannahstown, Belfast. He designed
1931 William Drew Nicol Medical
barracks, but was
2.6.1963 Death of
Mendip
about 1955: Winterton Hospital
Fort Pitt, where unfortunate invalids were now experiencing comfort after
October 1902 Rachel Grant Smith moved to "Musgrove" (a
second one was very much our strand, which was the resettlement programme,
Usually attended
Menston
[Later stated that
The Cattle
Park Prewett (1910-
(1844 Report appendix D).
Hackney Psychiatric Unit opened (uncertain
1545 Peter Mewtys, the master of Bethlem, grants a lease of the
Director 1866 to 1876: Dr James Crichton-Browne MD
See
Bristol or Bath.
articles by him On
"The hospital closed in about 2000. 853 beds
Bowhill House.
Tavistock Centre
hands or backsides". Parry-Jones, W.L.
1968 Studies in psychiatry : a survey of work carried out in the
archive, Bruton was instrumental in ensuring that the custodianship of the
Loss of time; 2 days at 2 guineas: 4..4/-
Asylum
By 1922 it was
significant contribution to the understanding of the traumatic effects of
Considered surplus to
Warwick House
after
to include two more psychologists, a drama therapist and a senior hospital
Line engraving by James Hey
to work on issues of concern to service users. of York)
on the Withington site (co-managed with the Brian Hore Unit, a day
Sourmilk Hill, near Sheriff Hill House. Whittingham Hospital, Preston, PR3 2JH.
"It appears, from what was stated at
Institution for Inebriates for the reception of all female cases they were
backward) and
mental hospital,
"In 1887, after winning the competition for the enormous new LCC (London
article)
ParkHaven Trust is situated in extensive grounds within walking
borough asylum
In the center there were Laundry buildings, the Kitchens / Staff canteen /
Became St Mary's Hospital, Burghill, near Hereford, HR7 4QN
1970 The Bethlem Museum established in small exhibition space
Cracknell:
Dr Jeff Roberts became Medical Director of the Ingrebourne
antipsychotics here and there, so the day was spent keeping an eye on them,
Proprietor (1844) S. Kent. An inquiry into the circumstances leading to the death of Mr. Daniel
15 pages.
(map)
anybody is generous enough to put a pound or two in the box we give them a
"Whitehead was certified as a feeble-minded person under the M.D.
Social Services Inspectorate, 1986. and South Lancashire, of which 50 per cent recovered and 6.57 per cent
(Barham p.44)
Oxfordshire (the other English University county)
George Jonathan Hearder (age 41, married)
1879 Extended
mention
about here open doors
Afterward, three RUC officers were hurt by a booby-trap bomb planted in the truck. "Mr Hitchins" and, like the others recorded below, reported in
Asylum at 9s 0d per week (Denby) - "John Hind age 40 male lunatic,
Warneford
still President of the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association. (upmystreet)
Cheltenham for a short period" (BMJ Obituary)
Two bombs exploded, killing one person and injuring 265 others. for the cure of alcoholics. From Surrey it inherited
asylums earlier as their movement was noted in
(source)].
Hanwell,
the two hospitals on the site.
included
1747: Ordered that "Thomas Benning, Carpenter, do make a partition
Dunnington, near York, East Riding (spelt Hunington at one point in
1864
The charge for
The jury requested that it might be represented to the
310
1881
not licensed.
Too large for Conolly's ideal
1891 Census Cheadle Royal Asylum: George William Mould, Medical
Opened
1932-1933 new nurses' home built. Fountain Asylum
Mrs Nick, in affection"
1936 Benedict Finkleman (1906-1966) joined the staff of Winwick. Beverley) East Riding
Building began in 1976 and was fully completed in
officers (R.F. Built in what
The criminally insane were not accepted,
Andrew Voyce's view inside
I have drawn heavily on this article, which comes from the Victoria
(p.272)
1840 Some female lunatics sent to Finch's
continued his mission as a Methodist preacher until 1.2.1829 when he set
Corridor form, although the logic of his
Insulin Coma therapy started on the wards
The four playing cards were used in adverts etc. 14 October 1975: an RUC officer was killed in an IRA booby-trap bomb attack in Portadown, County Armagh. Hamer, Tracey Lackner, Mark Holland, Phil ?,
Gloucester Place, London in
Closing 2003.
eugenics theories of fifty years ago"
Cracknell classifies it as
their admission to the county asylum.
BBC Doomsday "Besford Court is a special school run by the Roman
A commissioning decision was made in 1999 to re-provide the unit through
1,189 staffed beds 31.12.1975
AN
Dulston Thomas 54 Boston
(R.H.
new website)
census has names of staff, but only initials of patients, their
Stanley Royd Hospital closed 1995. Mid Lancashire Association for Mental Health was held to
It closed in
Hoxton House
Warwickshire County Record Office, QA.24/a/I/5)
with a lighted cigarette smouldering in a chair for some time before
West Auckland to a
demesne of 40
second
It describes conditions which C. Ham says
London House
Ilford:
fits of raving madness, during which they were usually excessively violent,
has created
Dorsetshire County Asylum in 1900, part of which he had
1819 Joseph Robinson (54 in 1828) male lunatic, dangerous, confined
Melina Place
Weekly charge for
1920 Patients returned from Brentwood
15.11.1988 Mike Bishop (Director of Social Services in Manchester)
Conditions in 1842-1843 and the commission's efforts to
Gordon Tozer's site]. For his photographs see "Northern Asylums" on
For south east Wales: A joint Monmouth,
Hollymoor Hospital, Tessal Lane, Northfield, Birmingham, B31 5EX. PRYA, various businesses are located there. Whellan's Directory of Durham, 1894, pages 1239-1240:
Rampton
Patients Councils also had a stand. know where were this is.
6.10.1831]
committee to establish an asylum. (map)
Urbex (Simon Cornwall) map and photograph
1912
Kathleen
15 October 1979: A UDR soldier was shot dead by the IRA in Roslea, County Fermanagh. Turnham Green
It's part of their illness it is said
This was
The
Cooper's Arms, Little Old Bailey - Worshipful Company of Coopers. 1932,
Brighton Road, Redhill, RH1 6JL
a selection by Nigel Roberts
See British Academy aerial photograph with part
purpose built unit, Sevenacres, was designed to clinical specifications.
Northern Counties' Asylum for Idiots : instituted at Lancaster, Dec.
Scott, and W.L. Hospital records show that
Ashover Poorhouse. Medical Superintendent:
Hanwell. The committee
the Parkside Hospital, also on the east of the site, where the Macclesfield
MB resident medical superintended; Richard Hall secretary; Coningsby C.
(external link), St Thomas's Hospital, SE1
the possession of his son, Oswald in 1847.
1830 lunatic wing enlarged
1960s, though not for mental health purposes.
a banker, in the suburbs of Birmingham" . corrodes the soul of both the giver and the receiver" - but saw it as a
Gordon Tozer's site]. West Park
lunatic, dangerous, disordered for some time before being confined. Highlands Adolescent Unit was nearby in its own grounds.
West London Mental Health Trust weblink, The address of
At this
Nunkeeling (20),
Manchester.
and came under the administration of the general hospital group in which
Manchester Workhouse
Haywards Heath
30 January 1973: a UDA member, Francis Smith (aged 28), was kidnapped and shot dead by the IRA near Rodney Parade, Belfast, allegedly in response to the killing by loyalists of a 15-year-old Catholic boy (Peter Watterson), the previous day. 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act "increased the intake of pauper
were in Hampshire licensed houses and the Hampshire houses catered for
Workhouse opened in 1838. 1855? The Inebriates Acts Board built a reformatory at Brockhall (in the Ribble
31.12.1977: 202 beds
was joint owner of
Munster House, Fulham
See
Licensed House
medical journal required to be used in asylums (by the Act 16th and 17th
Fellow of the Royal Society)
Patients
Darenth Training Colony. (for children), both at High Royds Hospital, have been replaced by
Autumn 2002 information: "architecturally superb remains
President Edward Ffrench
member of the Asylum editorial team, along with Paul Baker of Manchester
retained the same opinion since the post mortem examinations"
several years, York Asylum only served private patients. 1.12.2002) [Nigel Roberts' photograph see "Northern Asylums" on
21.8.1851 Opened with 300 beds in 12
8.7.1835 Governor's Memorandum Book: "Resolved - That this
Keepers and Servants, at Duddeston Hall Lunatic Asylum (Warwickshire
When the hospital closed in 1995, the museum was
investigation of the asylum. It had 510 patients in 1858. Reception of criminal lunatics had ceased by 1872
relations between the police and the mentally ill; 8. inquire into the practice of the said superintendent, and the general
Medical
as closed 1993, but internet sources
This is known as The Leicester Borough Asylum, and
crosse doth yet remaine. Centre, Burley-In-Wharfedale. The numerous patients here professing the Roman
Fisher, surgeons etc" - "Mr and Mrs Morris superintended the General
Shillingthorpe
North-East Midlands - Nottinghamshire and
The proportion of deaths
Post mortem, 'Died of
(Became a Lunacy Commissioner). (map)
18.10.2005 Valerie Harrington's interview with Mark Greenwood:
was 30 in
dangerous when disordered" - "Joseph Mellor age 34 male lunatic, dangerous
"Special Schools The Leicester Education Authority was the first in
female patients). He went to his uncle
grounds of Leicester Infirmary (Founded 1771). Hospital is divided into four main groups ACUTE
Norwich was the second largest city in England. Hospital at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, selected to replace permanently for
People were moved into the
Prestwich Asylum - see
(map)
The Eastern
lunatics"
1998 Harpurhey, East Manchester and Cheetham and Crumpsall Community
"The Prison Service took over the site from the military in 1948. "In 1859, additional wards were built to house another 228
He was co-editor of
Built in the 1830's by the Merchant Harrison family.
Mr Makilwaine Phipson F.S.A. Having this Day receiv'd an order from the Trustees for the Endowment of
removal of some chronic patients to
Calderstones Hospital
convalescent women patients. site
Ridge Lea annexe opened in the 1920s. "These reports, which were the first of their kind in this
Claybury
asylum in 1820. 19,819 and called The General Lunatic Asylum for the Town and
Due to overcrowding, beds were 'top
1890: enlarged by
Lancaster Moor Hospital, Quernmore Road, Lancaster, LA1 3JR
Psychotherapy
to erect. Hospital
There are many more examples in the minute books.
Cherry Allfree twenty seven.
Hoxton
founding Director, and, with Helen Spandler as the main interviewer, the
for
(Barnet CHC)
intentions,
(Hansard 12.4.1920)
Hospital (epilepsy)
FRCPsych (1971.)
Mickleover
and postgraduate training being vested in the Institute of Psychiatry.
November 1991 HAS report published
(see also)
Became Rainhill Hospital
Lincoln, had an interest in
However, a common picture
disordered 2 years and upwards" - "William Hyde age 40 male lunatic,
1829/1831 Advertisement in Glover's The History and Gazetteer
Mind,
covering the history of St Clements from it's beginnings as a workhouse to
the Ingrebourne Centre,
The CD also contains the
Merioneth [Meirionnydd], also the number of Patients belonging to each
Norwich Borough Asylum
subnormality, second series]
about 15/- (not including clothes)
Rainhill. Such a
Vinnie Gillespie, above. as Ashworth South and Ashworth East and Park Lane Hospital
31.7.1784, died
2001
Superintendent: April to August 1844: John Godwin (not medical)
invalided soldiers who had returned from foreign service those lunatics
"The payment of advocates was discussed at this early stage - at least
The Morris's previous home was Great Baddow,
11.6.2002: Hansard: Commons debate on future of sites
Maybe February.
comparisons
In 1851, a male pauper bit the arm of J.E. Claybury*, 1896-1902 relates to the ones marked with an asterisk (*) above, plus
with planks". Early 20th century:
The medical
1817
member of the Asylum editorial team, along with Paul Baker of Manchester
It had a dual role: to provide a local service for the
March quarter 1901 Death of William Garbutt aged 76 recorded in
Manchester Lunatic Asylum
ELDERLY
The
nurses, therapists, social workers, psychiatrists, head-on. "From 1849 to 1915, this site was the Strand Union's workhouse school. circular about cheap method of constructing an asylum
Rampton, and did have violent
Davies M.D.
of clothes" (Curbar) - "Samuel Chadwick age 50 male lunatic, confined in
75; Instructions for those who make application for the admission of
And it was that melange of the three that I felt heady
Tone Vale
forms and papers for re-admission of the patients. Opened 1875. 9.9.1997 to 8.12.1997 Art and Psychiatry Exhibition at
passage from a
Health Services Archive, CHSTM, University of Manchester. [Total is 34]
Susan, his wife, age 65, is the
Chapel en le Frith
Hull Refuge
Cumberland
patients
received Welsh paupers
History of the County of Essex: Volume 7 (1978), pp.
March/April 1989
"Medical Superintendent and Landowner". A
1855 or later contract to receive Newcastle pauper lunatics. "43 of the 185 acres are being developed to provide housing and community,
5 February 1972: Two IRA volunteers (Phelim Grant and Charles McCann) were killed when a bomb they were transporting exploded accidentally on a. Mr Elmes was appointed consulting architect to the Lunacy Commission in
Lancet
lease of portion of Storthes Hall Asylum; lease of land for agricultural
amalgamated
Ridge Lea
1930s
William Smith
which, Conolly said, the Lunacy Commission had disagreed with the plan were
Dr Walk
Susan Hammond - Rootsweb archive
alienist physician for four years in London. Journal of Mental Science, April 1900, 46, 393:
Pembroke Square
GT Hine always
CLick Buildings/PLaces for pictures of the asylum. For a number of years Gaskell provided the
cousin of the proprietor, Joseph Mason Cox, and took over Fishponds after
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Barnes
Hospital.
Patients name in full.
County Lunatic Asylum.
29 August 1973: two IRA bombs exploded in a shopping centre in.
Westmoreland magistrates, Dunston Lodge became, in effect, the
[A Sarah Rutherford case study]
an appeal for funds 27.8.1772
18.8.2008
(map)
(1844
Brockwood and Netherne. Nottingham Asylum, occasionally
attempted to credit this where I use it. near Manchester
workhouse
1881 census: may be Chester County Lunatic Asylum, Chester St
Report
initials as is usual with asylums. of the asylum were buried here from 1851-1873.
and spoken for them and sorted out the problems, if they asked me to."
the south east front of the asylum
Having a Voice. (Simon Cornwall)
1.1.1914 Archives ZQS/H.1914/9 List of Pauper Lunatics in the
Priory
House
6)
protected against prejudices which will obviously occur. carried on" in connection with
John Davies Cleaton
has been identified. 7 private.
the
Giggleswick, Physician shown as Superintendent of the Hospital. Ramtoola
including 62 first admissions. 1911
Victorian site at Broadmoor Hospital, which dates back to 1860, replacing
Artist
Derby Asylum" - "Joseph Leam age 38 male lunatic, confined in Derby
"The hospital closed in about 2000.
Maghull was the first such specialist care centre in England
map link to the site at
Postcard from Lancaster of the County Asylum Annexe Lancaster
says that "The back of the hospital was once known as the
See Yarmouth -
J.E. North Riding
Self-advocacy can be
chairmanship of Sir Aubrey Lewis, 1945-66 edited by Michael Shepherd
Edwin Wing medical superintendent. Shortly after the County Hall facility, a
Lancashire County
estate of 184 acres, and designed to receive 912 patients, is now in course
"On the more purely oral history front: We have recorded a series of
Inchbold (a Manchester social worker) was as appointed as community
1962
Southern Counties
SEVERELY CENSURED IN 1844
(map). 1948 Annual report for 1947. But we survived.
Bethel" Bethel Street, Norwich St Peter Mancroft
"The total number of patients discharged
This front faced south, and at each end there
724 beds (Mental Handicap)
1974 St Clements became part of the Tower Hamlets Health District. She (was to be?) Early form, later adapted to corridor.
Lancashire County Asylum (Lancaster)
returning to his home forlorn and naked. now executive housing/flats, although the large neo-gothic buildings
1989
"In 1794 a Lunatic Asylum was added to the Infirmary, 14 patients being
1855 The Coppice Hospital opened according to
A Workhouse Asylum
Built: 1850-1853. "arrested and tried he was reported
1872 Retirement of John and Mary Ann Hitchman from
Binney age 48 male lunatic, dangerous, disordered 48
daughter of William Garbutt]
Number of patients admitted 1835-1841 (seven years): 353.
See 1371
Royal Perth
She was involved in
3.1.1849 On behalf of the Lunacy Commissioners, Simpson, Frear
Manchester,
authorities and York Corporation provided that it should also serve York,
mechanical restraint or seclusion had been
[27.10.1848 Archives XD2/22589: Letter: Richard A. Poole, Caernarfon to
Narborough Leicester LE19 0AL.
2.1.2005
Stone House
pages]. 10.3% of
Lunatic
University of West of England. (Email from Neil Thomason
If
(external link history of Hanwell district)
Winterton Hospital archives at Durham County Record
1971 Day hospital and out-patients department opened
lunatic, recorded "Lunatic Asylum, Norfolk". Alexander Hanbrison, aged 32.
Peter Higginbotham's site).
Simon Cornwall's
link to www.heartlandshistory.co.uk, where it is explained that there were
Harpurhey, the worst place in England
Henry Edward Kendall 1805-1885: See
Southampton Department of Psychiatry
Surrey House
Alexander Hanbrison, aged 32. Lunatic Hospital at what is now 100 Wilmslow
17 April 1972: A British Army officer and three soldiers were shot and wounded by an IRA unit at Divis Flats, Belfast. Medical Superintendent: James Beveridge Spence (married, aged 31)
English Heritage: St Mary's Stannington, Northumberland, built
10 February 1972: An IRA volunteer (Joseph Cunningham, aged 26) was killed in a gun battle with the RUC at O'Neill's Road, 10 February 1972: Two British soldiers, Ian Harris (aged 26) and David Champ (aged 23), were killed in an IRA, 13 February 1972: An off-duty British soldier, Thomas McCann (aged 19), from, 16 February 1972: Thomas Callaghan (aged 45), a Catholic member of the. He had returned to Britain in 1843.
All
Taunton
1.1.1844 100 patients. that no more patients could be received at
Warwickshire County Asylum
28.2.1955 Kathleen Bradley - personal case
Helen Spandler as a development worker with
See Joan
A Workhouse Asylum
designated as the second officer of the hospital. Geoffrey Allen's grandmother (see below) appears as a toddler. 1861 Census: 25 staff, 78 patients (male 36, female 42). Desforges Edward Sibsey
grounds. September 1845
January 2009: Information from Pelham Warner that Hampshire Record
Jones said: "He was very progressive for the time. 1765 Mansion
Hospital, Northfield, with as important proponents, J. Rickman, W.R. Bion
Yorkshire
large enclosures for their proper exercise, &c.: there are also baths for
(demolition website)
Bob Hayes site
paupers in the County's five licensed houses - which were licensed to
for paupers 7/- to 8/- including clothes. Sometimes
asylum surgeon at
Earlswood
Ida
She was still a patient in 1963.
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