Lunatic Collection (page 2)

LUNATIC ASYLUM 1877
Asile dAlienes (lunatic asylum) of Sainte-Anne, Paris Date: 1877

Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum - Laundry
Staff stand amongst piles of washing in the laundry at Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum

Force Feeding at Denbigh Lunatic Asylum
A patient is force fed through a tube at the Denbigh Lunatic Asylum, North Wales. Date: 1890s

Lunatic Asylum humour - Upside down wheelbarrow
Visitor to Dottieville Lunatic Asylum which is undergoing structural improvements (to harmless lunatic who is extremely busy wheeling a barrow upside down)

Laundry Staff at Whittingham Asylum, near Preston, Lancs
Laundry staff at Whittingham Asylum, Cumeragh Lane, Goosnargh, near Preston, Lancashire. The asylum, designed by Henry Littler of Manchester, opened in 1873 as the Lancashire County Lunatic Asylum

Angleton Asylum, Bridgend, Glamorgan, Wales
A view of the Angleton lunatic asylum at Penyfai, Bridgend, Glamorganshire, also known as the Glamorgan County Mental Hospital and later Glanrhyd Hospital

Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum - staff and patients in the infectious hospital

Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum - Patients Gallery
Two nurses stand on Gallery 5 at Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum. Behind them regularly spaced doors lead to the patients individual rooms

Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum - Childrens Ward
Staff and inmates of Childrens Ward 2 at the Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum. One girl holds a doll, and another sits on a rocking horse; two others sit in a rocking device

House of Fools of Love by Francisco Quevedo. Illustration
Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas (1580-1645). Spanish writer. House of Fools of Love. Illustration. Printed in 1895. Private collection

Wiltshire County Asylum, Devizes
Entrance to the main buildings of the Wiltshire County Lunatic Asylum. The asylum, designed by T.H. Wyatt, opened in 1851, later becoming Wiltshire County Mental Hospital then Roundway Hospital

Essex County Lunatic Asylum at Warley Hill, Brentwood
The Essex County Lunatic Asylum was established in 1853 at Warley Hill, Brentwood, Essex. It later became Brentwood Mental Hospital and then Warley Hospital. Date: 1908

A case of mistaken insanity: wrongly admitted to the asylum
A cunning lunatic dupes the staff at a mental institution into taking his irate captor into the incurables ward instead of himself. Date: 1838

Hydrotherapy treatment at French mental hospital
Water treatment at Asile d Alienes (lunatic asylum) of Sainte-Anne, Paris. Date: 1868

County Lunatic Asylum, Brentwood, Essex
The Essex County Lunatic Asylum was established in 1853 at Warley Hill, Brentwood, Essex, and was designed by H. E. Kendall Junior. It later became Brentwood Mental Hospital and then Warley Hospital

St Audrys Hospital, Woodbridge, Suffolk
Aerial view of St Audrys Hospital at Woodbridge, Suffolk, originally erected in 1765 as a workhouse formerly known as the House of Industry for Looes and Wilford Incorporated Hundreds

Stafford County Asylum, Burntwood, Staffordshire
The Staffordshire County Lunatic Asylum opened at Burntwood in 1864. The buildings, designed by William Lambie Moffatt, later became Burntwood Mental Hospital then St Matthews Hospital

Hospital of Haydar Pasa, Constantinople
The Gardens of the Hospital of Haydar Pasa with staff and some inmates - Constantinople, Turkey

Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum - Patients Dining Hall
Staff prepare the tables in the patients dining hall at Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum

Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum - Kitchen
Staff stand in front of large coppers at Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum

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

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

Pauper Lunatic Detention Application
A 1926 Pauper Lunatic Detention Application requesting that Ada Wheelhouse be detained as a lunatic in the Todmorden workhouse. Date: 1926

Pauper Lunatic Detention Order
A 1926 Pauper Lunatic Detention Order authorising the detention of Ada Wheelhouse as a lunatic in the Todmorden workhouse. Date: 1926

Pauper Lunatic Certificate
A 1926 Pauper Lunatic Certificate certifying that workhouse inmate Ada Wheelhouse was feeble-minded and fit to remain in the workhouse, categorised as a lunatic

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

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

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

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

Birds Eye View of the Pauper Lunatic Asylum, New York Blackwells Island, New York. Date: ca. 1839

Station at Whittingham Asylum, Lancashire
The terminus station at Whittingham Asylum, Cumeragh Lane, Goosnargh, near Preston, Lancashire. The asylum opened in 1873 as the Lancashire County Lunatic Asylum

Male Quarters, Broadmoor Asylum, Berkshire
Exterior of blocks housing male patients at Broadmoor Asylum, Berkshire. The institution opened in 1863 as the Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum. Date: Date unknown

District Asylum, Mullingar, County Westmeath, Ireland
A view of the District Lunatic Asylum at Mullingar, County Westmeath, Ireland

City of London Lunatic Asylum, Stone, Dartford, Kent
The City of London Lunatic Asylum for pauper lunatics was established in 1862 on Cotton Lane at Stone near Dartford, Kent

Work House, Blackwells Island, New York, USA
The workhouse on Blackwells Island, New York, USA. The workhouse provided a punitive regime for petty offenders who were required to labour during their stay

Dispensary, Napsbury War Hospital, Hertfordshire
Scene in the Dispensary of Napsbury War Hospital, which operated during the First World War at the Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum, originally opened in 1905 on Shenley Lane, London Colney, near St

Twelfth Night Entertainment at the Hanwell Lunatic Asylum
Inmates of the Hanwell Lunatic Asylum, a pioneering institution for the Victorian age which operated a non-restraint policy

Manisa on the Meander, Turkey - Lunatic Asylum
Inmates of Hadji-Hassans famous lunatic asylum at Manisa (Magnesia), Turkey. On the Meander River - from which the word meander comes from

Lunatic Asylum
LA SALPETRIERE Asylum founded in 1656, used especially for female patients, and later noted for the studies of hysteria by Charcot and others

Colney Hatch
Entertainment for the patients at the Middlesex Lunatic Asylum, Colney Hatch

London Asylum / Grant / 1838
Interior of an unnamed lunatic asylum in London: inmates draw on the walls, look up at the high windows or read distractedly

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