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 > > My father was treated there from the mid-forties to mid-fifties and we > used to go back to see some of his > mates, mainly those who had not recovered psychologically from their > war-time service/experiences. > I believe that we used to go to E-block on these occasions. It was very > disconcerting to find that E-block > had been replaced by an almost disney-esque housing development. I think > about a quarter of the old site > has housing built on it but it still had some of the broad vistas down the > hill that I remember from my > childhood. There is still a series of operating NHS units at the top of > the site, but the old Victorian Gothic > core is being converted into flats and offices as far as I understand. > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Margaret Grundy <margaret.g39@btinternet.com> > To: middlesex_county_uk@rootsweb.com > Sent: Tuesday, 28 October, 2008 5:57:34 PM > Subject: [MDX] Asylum > > The Essex County Asylum is not the same as Severalls Colchester. > > The Essex County Insane Asylum was in Brentwood Essex and opened in 1853 > with 450 patients.It changed to the Brentwood Mental Hospital in 1920.It > is > now a park as far as I can tell. > There is more on the web if you look for either hospitals. > > Margaret > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MIDDLESEX_COUNTY_UK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MIDDLESEX_COUNTY_UK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message