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

People and Events

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