In 1939, a farmhouse at Four Ashes in Dorridge was home to a few rather interesting individuals, including John Hampson, the gay/bisexual novelist, and Wolfgang von Einsiedel, a refugee from ...
A small private lunatic asylum was founded in Knowle in 1866 by Miss Ann Darke; in 1867 it was licensed for 20 female private patients.1 The asylum was located in ...