He was committed to Colney Hatch lunatic asylum in north London the following year. He died 28 years later in the Leavesden Asylum, Hertfordshire. His eldest brother, Isaac, was a wealthy tailor ...
New plans have been unveiled to transform an island that housed an asylum with a dark history of abuse into a tourist attraction. Peat Island in the Hawkesbury River on NSW Central Coast was ...
New plans have been unveiled to transform an island that housed an asylum with a dark history of abuse into a tourist attraction. Peat Island in the Hawkesbury River on NSW Central Coast was ...
Photograph of Entry of Hannah Mills in York Lunatic Asylum Admission Register 15 March 1790RET 1/8/8/7/1 Photograph of Burial Certificate for Hannah Mills in Quaker burial ground, 1 May 1790RET ...
Peat Island was established as an asylum for “inebriates” in 1911 before it was reopened as a psychiatric hospital, just 50km north of Sydney. If the walls could talk they would tell of the ...