Central Hospital was largely self-sufficient, with its own fire engine, blacksmith, carpenter, kitchen, sports pitches, chapel, nurses’ home and so on. Huge boilers provided heating and hot water for the ...
Hatton Asylum Orchestra. My Great Grandfather is on the end, left, with a violin. I am not sure of the date. My Great Grandfather was Henry William Johnson, a baker, ...
Dealing with people who had mental health problems was originally severe, partly because they were regarded as bad (and possibly possessed by the devil) rather than mad. They could be ...
The madhouse/asylum trade in Henley in Arden owes much to Mary Roadnight (née Meales). The madhouse first licensed by her husband, William Roadnight, in 1774 had been run by Mary ...
