Category talk:Former psychiatric hospitals in England

Latest comment: 4 years ago by Ianmurray5 in topic Asylums

Asylums

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As this category was intended to cover historical UK asylums where does one place ex Mental Handicap / Learning Difficulty Asylums as the title precludes this similar group of buildings. Equally, there are a few old asylums still in use as hospitals, but again this category title does not work Ianmurray5 (talk) 14:51, 6 June 2020 (UTC)Reply

UK Asylums were a design type built between about 1830 until 1910 in many cases (if not all) they were built to remove people with mental health or learning difficulty conditions from the county poor houses into a hosptial type of place where they could be looked after correctly. Most were called at one stage County Asylums and it is this category of building that I was trying to link together. Ianmurray5 (talk) 14:38, 6 June 2020 (UTC)Reply