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City Mental Hospital Lodge road

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master brummie
Does anyone have any information about this hospital? I have just found out that my Grandfather died there in October 1918.
Thank you
 
Thank you. I didn't realise that it was the Winson Green asylum in 1918. I will have to do some more research.
 
All Saints was the first CITY ASYLUM in the country, all were previously County or private Asylums, closed in 1997-8 the old main building retained and connected up with and used by HMP Prison; grounds and out buildings part of redevelopment site with a purpose built adult High Dependency Unit.
Prior to 1940s, Asylums tended to take people with a more definable mental illness, and needed more medical attention than those left in the infirmaries of the Workhouse like Highcroft.
 
A few of the residents used to come into The Don public house which was opposite what i would call their lodge entrance on Lodge Rd
 
I recall walking to HNR school up Lodge Road and the residents asking us through the railings to get them cigarettes from the shop opposite
 
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