Stanley Royd Hospital
Welcome to the digital archive dedicated to the former Pauper Lunatic Asylum, Wakefield
People and Events
A Hero In Our Midst – Charge of the Light Brigade
A Sporting Hospital
A Very English War 1939 – 1945
A War To End All Wars 1914 – 1918
All Year Round, The Suspicions Of Mr Ashworth..
Annie Eastwood – Murder in the Asylum
Beatrice Tetley – Halifax
Clarence & Mary Squires
Dr Caleb Crowther
Dr Peter Findlay Fletcher 1912 – 1975
Enoch Powell’s Water Tower Speech 1961
James Beaumont – 1930
Martin Smith – A Modern Day Hero
Medical Director – William Charles Ellis (1818 – 1831)
Medical Directors – Men Of Distinction
Miss Alice Whalley M.B.E
Miss Sarah Hannah Rose Tolson
Mr Lawrence Ashworth – A Man of Devotion
Nurses’ Prizegiving – November 1959
Nursing Staff
Pauper Patients – The 19th Century Asylum
Princess Royal Visit – The Princess Royal 1955
Sylva’s Memoirs
The Seal of Honour – The King’s National Roll Scheme
Victorian Skin Complaints – Wakefield Asylum
Visit By Dutch Psychiatrists 1929
West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum – Through Time
Home
A Resource
Asylum Buttons
Between Sanity And Madness
Care and Control of the Feeble Minded
Eugenics
Fatal Fire at a Lunatic Asylum – August 1883
High Royds Memorial Garden Open Day – July 2012
High Royds Hospital – Third West Riding Asylum
Middlewood Hospital Sheffield – Second West Riding Asylum
Psychiatry From Yesterday To Today
Report On Mental Health Services Leeds 1958
Stephen G. Beaumont Museum of Mental Health
Storthes Hall – Fourth West Riding Asylum
Suggestions & Instructions With Reference To Lunatic Asylums – 1911
The Acts Of Parliament From 1808 – An Evolution Of Mental Health Law
The Asylum News – 1911
The Evolution Of Mental Health Law
The Retreat – York
West Riding of Yorkshire Asylum Act 1912
West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum – Report 1849
Insight
A Sacrilege – St Faiths In Hospital
A Time For Change 1959 – Modernisation
Archive Images – Watch The Birdie
Asylum Nation
Conditions Of Appointment Of Female Nurses 1938
Conversion To Housing
Demolition And Conversion Preparation 2002
Fieldhead Hospital
Medical Officers
Newton Lodge, Fieldhead
Pinderfields Building The New Hospital
Pinderfields General Hospital – January 2009 – 2012
Recreation Hall – Theatre Royal
Stanley Hall – Home For Imbecile Boys
Stanley Royd Chimney Demolition – July 14, 2007
Stanley Royd Hospital 1986
Stanley Royd Hospital Chapel Fire – June 18, 2012
Stapleton Park – The Hospital That Never Was
The 1938 Mental Hospital
The Destiny Church
The Mortuary
The Subterranean Reservoir
Tuke’s Practical Hints 1815
Turkish Baths
Management And Treatment
A Padded Environment
Electric Convulsive Therapy (ect)
Food for Thought..
Modern Mental Treatment 1947
West Riding Asylum – The Early Treatments
History In Your Hands
My Channel
The 1938 Mental Hospital
A series of images generally depicting treatment and conditions at Stanley Royd hospital and other large former asylums across the uk circa 1938
