Barrow Gurney Mental Hospital Bristol
Barrow gurney somerset built.
Barrow gurney mental hospital bristol. The hospital was built to help cope with the serious overcrowding problem at the existing city of bristol mental hospital at stapleton was experiencing during the 1920s. Barrow gurney bristol colony plan mental hospital sir george oatley. Barrow hospital sometimes referred to as barrow gurney hospital was a psychiatric hospital in barrow gurney somerset united kingdom foundation. July 1948 the hospital was transferred to the newly formed national health service and both barrow and the bristol mental hospital were jointly managed by the bristol hospital management committee under the.
Barrow hospital opened in the late 1930s as an expansion to the overcrowded bristol city asylum glenside it closed quietly in 2006 after being dammed in 2005 for the now infamous dirtiest hospital in the country tag. By the mid 1920s the existing city of bristol mental. By the 1930 s bristol mental hospital was becoming very overcrowded and the need for additional facilities was widely acknowledged so the bristol corporation purchased 260 acres of land near barrow gurney at the market value on 20 000 as the site of the new purpose built hospital. Sir george herbert oatley of bristol abandoned.
Including managing a day hospital near the centre of bristol and helping to keep former patients in the community by providing home visits. Demolished in 2014 page updated. Barrow gurney hospital once served as a psychiatric hospital in barrow gurney somerset united kingdom. Graffiti old belongings and strange things were found.
Mental top of page records can be found at. At the time the hospital was being planned the old victorian style of. It s been well over a year since my previous visit and many more buildings have been demolished. The civil parish includes barrow common and has a population of 349.
Barrow gurney is a village and civil parish in somerset england situated in the unitary authority of north somerset on the b3130 midway between the a38 and a370 near the long ashton bypass and bristol airport 5 miles 8 0 km south west of bristol city centre. Before it was demolished hannahbella stepped inside the derelict barrow gurney hospital. 1951 1968. 2012 last known condition.
A return to the first real site i explored. Record type date range. Barrow gurney bristol bs19 3sg.