**institution-map**
During 2016, United Kingdom Disability History Month (UKDHM) and the Open University produced a map of the larger long-stay institutions ...
Throughout most of their recent history, people with learning disabilities have been labelled and classified. This process was key to individuals ...
Brockhall was opened in 1904 as an institution for inebriate women under the Inebriates Act of 1898. This act was ...
Calderstones was built in the early part of the twentieth century, it was originally intended as a mental asylum but ...
Following the sale of Brockhall Hospital to the developer Gerald Hitman, in 1993 a memorial was erected on the site ...
Around 1200 individuals who lived in Calderstones were buried in the cemetery.
When the long-stay institution was largely demolished around 2000, ...
Betsy Bell was born in 1926. She went to Brockhall hospital in 1959, and except for a few months away ...
Although in the early 1980s the complete closure of Calderstones, Brockhall and the Royal Albert may not have been official ...
Duncan Mitchell was born in 1962, and trained as a nurse at Calderstones between 1983 and 1986. After qualification he ...
“It was always, Thank God. That day’s over.”
John, born in 1960, was a Nursing Auxillary at Brockhall Hospital for about ...
Here is the 1988 Contraction Plan document for Brockhall and Calderstones.
In the end Brockhall closed in 1992, and Calderstones (as a long-stay ...
