High Royds Hospital
Welcome to the digital archive dedicated to the former Pauper Lunatic Asylum, Menston
A Family Legacy
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People And Events
“Bodies” Filmset.
A War To End All Wars 1914 – 1918
An Elevated Position – Medical Superintendents
Asylum The Movie
Better Than Wuthering Heights
Black Daisies For The Bride
Centenary Brochure 1888 – 1988
Closure February 2003
Confined Places
Contact
David Oluwale – The Tragedy
Derek Hutchinson – A Survivor of Psychosurgery
Escape From Menston Asylum
Escapees
Former Staff Memories
Fred Butterfield, 1889
Heritage Open Days – September 2011
High Royds – The Final Years
High Royds History Timeline
Isaac Waite – Engine Tenter
Isabelle Duesbery
John And Ursula Haworth
Martin Smith – A Modern Day Hero
No Angels
Nurse Gwen recalls
Nurse Rose
Occupational Therapist Evelyn Friend – 1966
Out Of The Shadows
Paul Digby – “Mind Odyssey”
Pop Turner
Psychiatric Nurse – Patrick’s Story
Reflecting On High Royds – The Exhibition
Remembering High Royds – Nurse David Teale
The Career of Dr John Todd And Drug Addiction Case Studies
The Dark Threads – Jean Davison
The Laundry Fire
The Return – Nurse Carol
The Sporting Teams
Those were the Days – F E Rogers.
Tom Booth, Tower Views 1979
Voices – Their Story
Ada Ward – 56 Years Asylum
Ethel Harrison – Servant
Mary Holmes – Spinner Aged 17
Sarah Thwaite – Domestic Servant 1911
Ward 24 – Barbara’s Story 1960’s
Watch the Birdie !
Voices
Charles Armstead – Epileptic
David Baxter
Edwin Naylor – Grocers Assistant 1899
George Gregg – Skinner 1899
Harry Emmett
John Constantine – 55 Years Asylum
John Pighills – Labourer 1899
Joseph Holdsworth
Joseph Jowett – Ironmoulder
Michael King
Pauper Inmates Male
Robert Cort – 30 Years Of Care And Treatment
Royal King Fearnley
Samuel Seanor – Private Patient
Thomas Holmes – Prisoner
William Crabtree – a pilferer of pockets
William Pedder – Labourer
A Resource..
Autumn 2016 – High Royds Hospital Grounds
Enoch Powell’s Water Tower Speech 1961
First Annual report 1889
In Splendid Isolation – Andrew Bannister
Mental – A History Of The Mad House
Mid Wales Hospital, Talgarth
A View From The Water Tower – May 2009
A Walk Around – October 2007
Administration – Mid Wales Hospital
April 2009 – Mid Wales Hospital
Archive Images – Mid Wales Hospital
Brecon And Radnor Asylum – Grand Opening 1903
Chancefield Estates…Stop Press
Chancefield House – Mid Wales Hospital
Clocking Off – March 2010
Divine Worship – Mid Wales Hospital
John Henry Avery – Mid Wales Hospital
Latest Images – Mid Wales Hospital
Maps & Plans – Mid Wales Hospital
May 2009 – Mid Wales Hospital
Medical Paraphernalia & Archive Records
Mid Wales Hospital – February 2008
Mid Wales Hospital – March 2010
Mid Wales Hospital 2011 – Updates.
Old Talgarth – Mid Wales Hospital
Private John Lewis – Mid Wales Hospital
Seclusion Cells – What Is This Life…
Snow and Ice – January 2010
Talgarth Town – 2008
TB Sanitorium – Bronllys hospital
The Annexe Building, Wards 7 & 8
The Ballroom – Mid Wales Hospital
The College Of Nursing – Mid Wales Hospital
The Death Rattle – Mid Wales Hospital
The Mortuary Mid Wales Hospital
Middlewood Hospital Sheffield – Second West Riding Asylum
Professor Dick Mindham
Psychiatry From Yesterday To Today
Report On Mental Health Services Leeds 1958
Science Of Eugenics
Stanley Royd Hospital Wakefield – First West Riding Asylum
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 Conversion of The Old Male Chronic Block – October 2016
The New Lunatic Asylum at Menston.
The Old Pump House
The Retreat – York
West Riding of Yorkshire Asylum Act 1912
West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum – Through Time
Insight
A Critical Eye, Inside Out.
Attention In Detail
Ballroom – Recreation Hall
Before The Echoes Fade
Before The Echoes Fade
Clock Tower – The Hands Of Time
Confinement Cells
Conversion To Housing
Fairytale Towers – How We Built Britain
Farming The Land G.W. Bitton
First Staff Service Register – Males
Grassington Hospital
High Royds – October 2008
High Royds – The Winter Collection
High Royds Hospital – School of Nursing
High Royds Hospital Conversion – January 2009
High Royds Hospital Railway
High Royds Voluntary Services Booklet
Laying Foundations
Linton House – Adolescent Unit
Maple House – St Mary’s
Menston Asylum Administration – Grand Designs
Minutes Of The Board
November 2011 – Male Corridor Demolition
Original Plans – Menston Asylum
Stainton Marrick Wards – Male Acute Block
The 1938 Mental Hospital
The Chapel – Under An English Heaven
The Confinement Cell Shutters
The Escroft Clinic Opening 1939
The Intensive Care Unit – Denton Clifton Wards
The Journey Begins – September 2007
The Kitchens
The Labyrinths Below
The Mortuary
The Nurses Residence
The Orders For Discharge – West Riding Asylum Menston.
The Pharmacy – High Royds
The Sports & Social Club
The Structure
The Surgical Wing – HighRoyds
The Ward Names & Becoming High Royds
Views From The Clock Tower 1990’s
Management & Treatment
Braham Myers, Menston Hospital Management
Care And Treatment – 1910
Dr Roy Hullin – Metabolic Research Unit
Electric Convulsive Therapy (ect)
Report By The Commissioner Of The Board Of Control 1927
Report By The Commissioner Of The Board Of Control 1928
Report By The Commissioner Of The Board Of Control 1929
Report By The Commissioner Of The Board Of Control 1944
Report Of The Commissioner Of The Board Of Control 1926
Report Of The Commissioners Of The Board Of Control 1930
The Care and Control of the Feeble Minded
The Pharmacy
War Services Allowance Committee 1943
West Riding Asylum – The Early Treatments
Memorial Garden – Menston
Buckle Lane – Ground Work
Buckle Lane – Resting below an English Heaven
Buckle Lane In The News
Cicely Sedgewick – 59 Years In Asylum
Family Research – High Royds Memorial Garden
Garden Restoration February 2011
Heritage Day – September 2016
High Royds Memorial Garden Open Day – July 2012
High Royds Memorial Garden – Buckle Lane June 2008
High Royds Memorial Garden – December 2009
High Royds Memorial Garden – Heritage Day 2016
High Royds Memorial Garden – Heritage Day’s 2012
High Royds Memorial Garden – Heritage Weekend 2015
High Royds Memorial Garden – Your Support Is Needed
High Royds Memorial Garden Newsletter – March 2013
Interesting Articles – High Royds Memorial Garden
Memorial Garden open Day – July2011
Menston youngsters help in clean-up
October 8, 2011
One Step Closer – February 2010
Preparations for the Memorial Garden, Buckle Lane opening day
Rainbows Brighten Memorial Garden
Yorkshire Landscape Artist Clarence Roe – Death In The Asylum
Yorkshire Life – May 2009
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Heritage Day – September 2016