Volume: Former 'Royal Earlswood Asylum for Idiots', Redhill

Date:: 19 Jan 1993

Location:: Asylum Arch Road, Redhill, Reigate, Reigate And Banstead, Surrey; Show all locations

Princes Road, Redhill, Reigate, Reigate And Banstead, Surrey

Royal Earlswood Hospital, Prince's Road, Redhill, Reigate and Banstead, Surrey

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:: BF101289

Type:: Volume containing Photographic, Textual and Miscellaneous material

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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.

Miniature Format Film Number: 150/U

Content

This is part of the Series: RCH01/008 Hospitals Project; within the Collection: RCH01 Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (RCHME) Archive

This Volume is divided into 1 Child Job

This Volume contains the following materials:

Photograph (Print): 33

Photograph (Print): 6

Photograph (Print): 3

Photograph (Print): 16

Photograph (Print): 21

Photograph (Print): 7

Photograph (Print): 29

Correspondence: 1

File: 1

Record Sheet/Form: 2

Rights

People & Organisations

Photographer: Barker, Sid: Rchme Fortress House National Buildings Record

Keywords

Hospital, Museum