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Friern Collection

Background imageFriern Collection: County Lunatic Asylum, Colney Hatch, Middlesex

County Lunatic Asylum, Colney Hatch, Middlesex
The Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum was opened in 1851 at Colney Hatch, near Friern Barnet, Middlesex. It later became known as Colney Hatch Mental Hospital and then as Friern Hospital

Background imageFriern Collection: Social occasion at Colney Hatch Asylum, Middlesex

Social occasion at Colney Hatch Asylum, Middlesex
A social event, occasion unknown, in the grounds of the Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum at Colney Hatch, near Friern Barnet, Middlesex

Background imageFriern Collection: Middlesex Pauper Lunatic Asylum, 1849

Middlesex Pauper Lunatic Asylum, 1849
The Italianate exterior of the New Middlesex Pauper Lunatic Asylum at Colney Hatch, near Friern Barnet, Middlesex (North London). The foundation stone was laid in 1849 by Prince Albert

Background imageFriern Collection: Middlesex Pauper Lunatic Asylum at Colney Hatch

Middlesex Pauper Lunatic Asylum at Colney Hatch, near Friern Barnet, Middlesex (North London), seen from the railway bridge. The foundation stone was laid in 1849 by Prince Albert

Background imageFriern Collection: Church of St James The Great, Friern Barnet, London

Church of St James The Great, Friern Barnet, London
Church of St James The Great, Friern Barnet, Enfield, near Bowes Park, County of London, England. Date: 1900s

Background imageFriern Collection: Dulwich Home Girls at Southbourne, Dorset

Dulwich Home Girls at Southbourne, Dorset
A seaside trip to Southbourne for residents of the Home for Girls at 62 Overhill Road, East Dulwich. The original home, the first to be established by the Waifs and Strays Society

Background imageFriern Collection: Middlesex Pauper Lunatic Asylum Cemetery, 1851

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

Background imageFriern Collection: Middlesex Pauper Lunatic Asylum fire, 1903

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

Background imageFriern Collection: The foundation stone of the Middlesex Pauper Lunatic Asylum

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

Background imageFriern Collection: COWSHED, 1853

COWSHED, 1853
The cow shed at Friern Manor dairy farm, Hertfordshire


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