Explore the story of the CWGC, from our formation during the First World War to our work today. There was extensive farmland and an abattoir. I stopped to take a picture to share with readers, and got chatting with a couple who live in one of the houses and a woman who lives nearby.

At around this time, despite a spirited campaign for mental health services to be retained on the site (there is one small unit), planning permission was granted for 650 homes and some of the hospital buildings were demolished. KewRichmondSurreyTW9 4DU Tel: +44 (0) 20 8876 3444, All content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0, except where otherwise stated, The Hospital Records database is no longer being updated.

The daily diet of patients and staff included one glass of ale from the hospital brewery. The Fourth County Lunatic Asylum at Whittingham was built in 1869 and opened on April 1st, 1893 in response to needs of an additional psychiatric hospital in Lancashire. It was left abandoned for a number of years before most of the buildings were demolished. We receive no independent funding and depend on our readers to help us, either with regular or one-off payments. Back to the houses that started this off: Here is a picture of the row. A new project aims to record the 150-year history of Whittingham Hospital. Staff and patients played in an orchestra and a brass band, and surprisingly, there was a ballroom. Mr Ashton writes: ‘The long stay patients had either been returned to their point of origin or placed in supposedly suitable units dotted about Preston. They were allowed to go out one day every three weeks and one Sunday every month.
on Facebook. Whittingham was to all intents and purposes practically self sufficient and had much more in common with a small town than a conventional hospital. An Italian civilian internee who died during the 1939-1945 War is buried in this cemetery, which also contains the graves of 4 servicemen who died during the 1914-1918 War. People who had been put into Whittingham by society were now being moved out.

The red bricks were made from clay dug on the site, with patients among the workforce. (During this period, from 1965 to 1968, rock musician Kevin Coyne worked at the hospital as a social therapist and psychiatric nurse. Now a sprawling housing development, Joe Atkin looks at the rise and fall of Britain's largest mental asylum. A monthly round-up of news, blogs, offers and events. The rest were left to rot. It is interesting to note that on the scale of trauma, death of a nearest and dearest being the top, moving home is second! After an abuse scandal in the late 1960s, the hospital entered a state of decline and eventually closed in 1995. There are four graves in the hospital cemetery which are under the care of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Any ‘attendant’ who lost a patient had to pay the expenses incurred in their return to the hospital. A nurse was jailed for manslaughter. They told me the row was built in 1901 for staff at Whittingham Mental Hospital. They expressed mild amazement that I had not heard of it, so I had to explain that I was a newcomer to Lancashire. https://am-records.com/2018/11/19/realm-of-the-coyne/ He later said he was traumatised by the experience, which haunted him for the rest of his life.). (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle ||[]).push({}); Margaret Ashworth is a retired national newspaper journalist. There was an Anglican church, a Roman Catholic chapel, a mortuary and a cemetery. However an inquiry was held the following year, after which the Head Male Nurse and the Matron took ‘early retirement’. According to the writer of the website, Ken Ashton, who was at that time a nurse, there were numerous improvements after the inquiry and the hospital was functioning well. County Mental Hospital, Rainhill (1923 - c.1948) Use our search tools to explore our records and find out about those we commemorate. A website about the hospital https://www.whittinghamhospital.co.uk/history/ records that an ‘open door’ policy was practised and patients had access to the grounds and the nearby village of Goosnargh. In 1901 the recorded working week of the staff was 98 hours. I find it quite possible to imagine the place as a true asylum for those who would find life in the community confusing and difficult, a place of safety and peace. No visit to the Western Front is complete without a trip to The CWGC Experience. The Hospital Records database is no longer being updated. If you appreciated this article, perhaps you might consider making a donation to The Conservative Woman. Thank you. Work started on building the hospital in 1869 when three other ‘lunatic asylums’ in Lancashire were full. They expressed mild amazement that I had not heard of it, so I had to explain that I was a newcomer to Lancashire.

Sadly some bad apples had got into the barrel and student nurses who raised the alarm about mistreatment and cruelty to patients in 1967 were threatened with legal action for libel and slander. We continue to make this information available for inspection and reuse but can no longer guarantee its accuracy.

I tried to contact Mr Ashton without success but if I manage to find him I will ask what the latest state of play is. German prisoners of war were also treated and a number who died were buried in the cemetery. If you have any questions or queries, our friendly Enquiries Team is on hand to help.
(One of the women I spoke to recalled playing badminton in the ballroom, the ceiling of which was so high that no one could hit a shuttlecock hard enough to reach it.)


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