1880 – New Borough Asylum, Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire
Architect: Smith & Broderick
The buildings enclose a double square, furnishing on either side a roomy airing-ground for the more troublesome of the patients.
Architect: Smith & Broderick
The buildings enclose a double square, furnishing on either side a roomy airing-ground for the more troublesome of the patients.
Published in The Architect June 24th 1882. The Blind Asylum was founded in 1804, with the first building on Castle Street erected in 1828 by public subscription.
Design published in The Building News, September 30th 1882. Never built to this design, the building as designed by Hickmay and Sons was a large,
The chief stone of a new asylum for idiots of the six northern counties of England has been laid with Masonic ceremonial by the Earl of Zetland as Grand Master.
Holloway Sanatorium was an institution for the treatment of the insane, located on 22 acres of parkland near Virginia Water,
This fine building was erected in 1885 as “Thompson House for the Incurables”, named after a local surgeon (William Thompson MD) who had tragically died three years earlier.
Published in The Building News May 16th 1884. Built 1884-86. Closed in 1987. Chapel, Ballroom,
In 1885 a competition held and 10 architects were asked to prepare competitive plans.
Perspective including ground & 1st.floor plans published in The Building News, February 3rd 1899.