"Essex Colchester Asylum" may well refer to the Royal Eastern Counties Hospital, Essex Hall, Colchester (1859-1985), a hospital for mental defectives, formerly located to the south of Colchester North railway station. Googling its name. reveals several documents referring to its progressive policies towards mental health, later adopted by Essex Council Council, which encouraged suitable inmates to go out into the local community However, the moving story of Valerie Argent reveals the questionable standards that were sometimes applied to their mental abilities. _www.studymore.org.uk/arcava.htm_. I was staying in August near the site of its "annex" , Turner Village, Turner Road (1935-1995) and recall that some of its residents used to attend services in Myland/ Mile End's Anglican and Methodist churches. Check the ERO for the hospital archives deposited there. The Infectious Diseases Hospital (later Myland) (1884-1989) and Severalls Hospital (1913-1997), :opened with 1,800 beds as the Essex County Mental Hospital, were also in Myland, as is still Colchester General Hospital, Turner Road (1985- ). My study of the St Michael's Myland parish magazines from the late nineteenth century onwards revealed the symbiotic relationship between the siting of so many hospitals in its healthy environment and its growth from a tiny village surrounded by farmland to an almost continuously growing suburb of Colchester. I am indebted for these dates to a recent history of hospitals in Colchester published in the (Colchester & North Essex) Gazette www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/2345820.m5ec/?from=ec&to=2345820_&l=__pioneering_history_of_our...nhs_.. Thank you all for your interesting responses to my post on the first issue of The Official 1911 Census Newsletter within the "All comes to he who waits" thread. My old identity card and an empty ration book were among the treasury of photographs, correspondence and other family documents dating from c.1905 to 1955 that I retrieved from storage in Colchester. I personally have too much material at my disposal already to be waiting anxiously for that door to open. I have also been mining some rich veins within various Passenger Lists and have just stumbled on a listing of three relatives who travelled from the Azores to our "Dutch bungalow" in Eastwood before I was born (the address appears in full) Re. "Place name in Herts.", Lawrence: squinting over my copy of the 1842 edition of Moule's map of Hertfordshire revealed a village south of Little Berkhampstead (sic) called Epping Green, containing Epping House, and a google located it as just "10.6m" from Epping. _www.ukvillages.co.uk/village/epping%20green-hertfordshire_ Peter Moll Tortola, BVI Neil & Jan Hearn wrote 28/10/2008: Hello, Thanks for all the helpful replies. The 1914 death certificate states she died at "Essex Colchester Asylum" but gives her cause of death as Mitral Disease with no reference to any mental illness .Jan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Hina" <robhina@btinternet.com> To: <middlesex_county_uk@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 7:00 AM Subject: Re: [MDX] Asylum > In 1953 the hospital was re-named Warley Hospital but the major part > of it was closed down and sold > to property developers around 2000. > The site below gives one view on the development, but googling > 'Warley' will give quite a few others. > boredtown.co.uk/warley.html