View looking north-east from the top of the tower at the Royal Earlswood Hospital

Date:
19 Jan 1993
Location:
Royal Earlswood Hospital, Prince's Road, Redhill, Reigate and Banstead, Surrey
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Asylum for Idiots, Redhill, Reigate and Banstead, Surrey
Earlswood Asylum, Redhill, Reigate and Banstead, Surrey
Royal Earlswood Asylum, Asylum Arch Road, Redhill, Reigate, Reigate and Banstead, Surrey
Royal Earlswood Asylum For Idiots, Asylum Arch Road, Redhill, Reigate, Reigate And Banstead, Surrey
Royal Earlswood Institution for Mental Defectives, Redhill, Reigate and Banstead, Surrey
Royal Earlswood Institution, Redhill, Reigate and Banstead, Surrey
Reference:
AA003668
Type:
Photograph (Negative)
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Description

The 'Asylum for Idiots' opened in Highgate in 1847 and moved to Earlswood in 1855. It was known as 'Earlswood Asylum' by 1896. In 1926 it was renamed 'The Royal Earlswood Institution for Mental Defectives', or simply the 'Royal Earlswood Institution'. It closed as the Royal Earlswood Hospital in 1997.

Content

This is part of the Job: 91/02356 Royal Earlswood Hospital, formerly 'Royal Earlswood Asylum'; within the Volume: BF101289 Former 'Royal Earlswood Asylum for Idiots', Redhill; within the Series: RCH01/008 Hospitals Project; within the Collection: RCH01 Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (RCHME) Archive

Rights

© Crown Copyright. Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Photographer: Barker, Sid

Keywords

Victorian Psychiatric Hospital