View from the south-west of the north-east 'Chronic Villa' at Park Prewett Hospital

Date:: 29 Apr 1993

Location:: Park Prewett Hospital, Rooksdown, Basingstoke and Deane, Hampshire; Show all locations

Hampshire County Asylum, Rooksdown, Basingstoke and Deane, Hampshire

Number Four Canadian Military Hospital, Rooksdown, Basingstoke and Deane, Hampshire

Park Prewett Mental Hospital, Rooksdown, Basingstoke and Deane, Hampshire

Park Prewett Psychiatric Hospital, Rooksdown, Basingstoke and Deane, Hampshire

Reference:: BB93/21832

Type:: Photograph (Negative)

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The hospital was planned as the second 'Hampshire County Asylum', with the site being acquired in 1899. Construction began in 1913 and was completed in 1917. The hospital was used as the Number Four Canadian General Hospital until 1919. It was re-opened in 1921 as 'Park Prewett Mental Hospital', later 'Park Prewett Psychiatric Hospital'. From 1948 it was known as Park Prewett Hospital. The hospital closed in 1997.

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This is part of the Job: 92/04826 Park Prewett Hospital; within the Volume: BF100511 'Park Prewett Mental Hospital', Sherborne St John; within the Series: RCH01/008 Hospitals Project; within the Collection: RCH01 Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (RCHME) Archive

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Photographer: Furbank, Len