Asylum Collection (page 5)

Receipt, Asylum for Idiots, Earlswood, Redhill, Surrey
Receipt from the Asylum for Idiots, Earlswood, Redhill, Surrey, dated 6 June 1889, confirming one years subscription of one guinea from Mrs R Blake Byass, signed by James Downing, Secretary

London Orphan Asylum, Watford. A large group of girls posed with the main building behind

Wanstead Infant Orphan Asylum
Infant Orphan Asylum, Wanstead. A view of the principal fronts. Date: 1843

Royal Victoria Patriotic Asylum, Wandsworth, designed by Mr Rhode Hawkins. Date: 1857

London Orphan Asylum, Watford - Girls in Swimming Pool
London Orphan Asylum, Watford. Girls in the indoor swimming bath. Date: circa 1924

London Orphan Asylum, Watford - Boys in Swimming Pool
London Orphan Asylum, Watford. Boys in the indoor swimming bath. Date: circa 1924

Royal Victoria Patriotic Asylum, Wandsworth - Plan
Royal Victoria Patriotic Asylum, Wandsworth. Plan of the ground floor by the architect, Mr Rhode Hawkins. Date: 1857

London Orphan Asylum, Watford - Infirmary Girls Ward
London Orphan Asylum, Watford. The girls ward in the homes hospital facility. Date: circa 1924

London Orphan Asylum, Watford - Boys Laboratory
London Orphan Asylum, Watford. Boys carry out a chemistry experiment in the laboratory. Date: circa 1924

London Orphan Asylum, Watford, Chapel
London Orphan Asylum, Watford. Architects design for the chapel. Date: 1869

London Orphan Asylum, Watford - Dining Hall
Children sit in long rows in the dining hall at the London Orphan Asylum, Watford

London Orphan Asylum / School, Watford - Aerial view
An aerial view of the London Orphan School (formerly London Orphan Asylum) at Watford. Railway yards lie at the bottom of the picture

British Orphan Asylum Admission Petition
A printed petition on behalf of orphan John Russell seeking support for his admission to the British Orphan Asylum Admission at Clapham Rise, south-west London

Royal Female Orphan Asylum, Beddington - Dining Hall
Girls sit at long tables in the dining-hall of the Royal Female Orphan Asylum, Beddington, Surrey

Blind Asylum, Bristol
The Bristol Blind Asylum which in 1832 moved to castle-like premises Queens Road, Tyndalls Park, Bristol

Cartoon, They get what they deserve, WW1
Cartoon, They get what they deserve, showing a group of pessimists, as if in a lunatic asylum, with a sign warning others against approaching or speaking to them. Date: 1915

GAOS GONZALEZ POLA, Jose (1902-1969). Spanish philosopher who obtained political asylum in Mexico during the Spanish Civil War. Portrait by A. Martinez Anaya. Oil on canvas

Benevolent Asylum, Victoria Street
Black and white image of the exterior of the Benevolent Asylum (now demolished), Victoria Street, Melbourne, Australia. Part of Box 100, Melbourne, Boswell Collection. Slide number 27

The centenary fete of the asylum of female orphans, Lambeth
The centenary fete of the asylum of female orphans on Westminster Road, Lambeth. Here the Archbishop of Canterbury is pictured saying Grace

The mens ward at Bethlehem Hospital, 1861. Several large potted plants are in evidence; perhaps an early example of horticultural therapy. Date: 1861

Suffragette Lunatic Asylum. Inmate of Lunatic Asylum tells mannish suffragette in tweed suit, spats and hat, What! You, a militant suffragette! Pooh

Earlswood Asylum, Redhill, Surrey - Inmates Cobbling
Inmates at the Earlswood Asylum at work making and repairing shoes. Date: circa 1904

Wolverhampton Royal Orphanage - Girls at Play
Girls at play, some with skipping ropes, at the Wolverhampton Orphan Asylum. Designed by Joseph Manning, the orphanage opened in 1854 at Goldthorn Hill. Date: circa 1905

London Orphan Asylum and School, Watford
A view of the London Orphans Asylum and School. The institution was founded in 1813 and moved to Watford in 1871. Date: Date unknown

Wadsley Asylum, Sheffield
Wadsley Asylum opened in 1872 near Sheffield. It was various known as the South Yorkshire Asylum, the West Riding Asylum, Wadsley Mental Hospital

London Houseless Poor Asylum
A queue of men wait for admission to the London Houseless Poor Asylum in Cripplegate. Date: 1908

City of London Asylum, Stone, Kent
Patients and nurses in the St Raphael Ward of the City of London Asylum at Stone. Date: Date unknown

Infant Orphan Asylum, Wanstead, London
The Wanstead Infant Orphan Asylum was founded in 1841 by Congregational minister Andrew Reed to provide a home for orphans below the age of seven. Date: Date unknown

Laundry at the Beaufort War Hospital, Fishponds, Bristol
An interior view of the laundry at Beaufort War Hospital, Fishponds, Bristol. Sheets are being ironed in a large rotary press. In peacetime, the hospital operated as the Bristol Lunatic Asylum

British Orphan Asylum, Slough, Buckinghamshire
A motor bus with its crew and passengers, stands in front of the British Orphan Asylum, Slough. Date: 1907

Magdalene Institution, Edinburgh
An illustration of the Royal Magdalene Asylum on Gorgie Road, Edinburgh. The institution was originally established in 1797 to house female ex-prisoners and fallen women

Female Quarters, Broadmoor Hospital
Exterior view of the female quarters and gardens at the Broadmoor Asylum, Crowthorne, Berkshire. Two women stand next to a gazebo. Date: 1911

Earlswood Asylum summer festival, 1867
Summer festival at the Earlswood Asylum for Idiots, Redhill. Date: 1867

Georgina Weldon, campaigner, litigant and amateur singer
Georgina Weldon 1837-1914), campaigner against the lunacy laws, litigant and amateur singer. Her interest in spiritualism led her husband to try to prove that she was insane; she resisted being taken

Middlesex Pauper Lunatic Asylum Cemetery, 1851
The consecration of the cemetery of the new Middlesex Pauper Lunatic Asylum at Colney Hatch, near Friern Barnet, Middlesex (North London), 1851

Middlesex Pauper Lunatic Asylum fire, 1903
The ruins of the temporary annexe at the Middlesex Pauper Lunatic Asylum at Colney Hatch, near Friern Barnet, Middlesex (North London), following the disasterous fire there in 1903

The foundation stone of the Middlesex Pauper Lunatic Asylum
The ornate silver trowel used on 8th May 1849 by Prince Albert to spread the mortar on the foundation stone of the New Middlesex Pauper Lunatic Asylum at Colney Hatch, near Friern Barnet

Melancholia patient, Charenton, 1838
A mental patient at Charenton asylum, suffering from melancholia. Date: 1838

The Royal Visit to Ireland, 1900 - blind women cheer
Inmates of the National Institute and Molyneux Asylum for the blind cheering Queen Victoria as she passed towards the city gates, as part of her royal visit to Ireland. Date: April 1900

Haydns Toy Symphony performed
Performance of Haydns Toy Symphony by children of the Royal Asylum of St Anne, Redhill, Surrey. Date: 1887

Chelsea Hospital - labelled here the Military Asylum. Date: 1805

Forbes Winslow
FORBES BENIGNUS WINSLOW doctor who specialised in insanity, had his own lunatic asylum, a key figure in early psychiatry. Date: 1810 - 1874

David Johnston, Church
DAVID JOHNSTON Scottish churchman, minister of North Leith; founder of the Blind Asylum, Edinburgh. Date: 1734 - 1824

Meeting of like minds at the Lnatic Asylum
Dottieville Lunatic Asylum - Inmate to new arrival: " What, you mad too! So gad." Date: 1898

Comic caricature in a lunatic asylum by Phil May
Dottieville Lunatic Asylum Visitor to the Asylum - " Is that Clock Right?" The Dotty One - " O course it ain, or it wouldn t be here." Date: 1900

Right of asylum in convents and churches. Illustration
" Right of asylum in convents and churches. Illustration of the epic poem " L entr饠 d Espagne" of the 14th C. that narrates Charlemagnes expedition to Spain. Gothic art

Sports Day at Earlswood Asylum, near Redhill, 1864
Engraving showing one of the running races held for the patients of the Earlswood Asylum for Idiots, near Redhill, 1864. A large crowd of spectators, in Victorian dress

Poplar & Stepney Sick Asylum, London

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