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It was officially opened as the Radcliffe Asylum by Lady Elinor Denison on 24 July 1902. In 1913 extensions were made for 148 patients, which cost £29,833. It was used as a military hospital in the later stages of the First World War, from August 1918 to October 1919, to care for shell shocked soldiers.
- 1902
- Public NHS
- Mental health
- Union History
- In The Aftermath of War
- The Sit-In
- Fighting Back
Radcliffe first opened its doors two decades earlier to provide mental asylum (as it was then called) for patients across Nottinghamshire. By the time of the dispute, it had over six hundred inpatients, and like all asylums at this time, its wards were segregated by sex. This meant that patients were cared for by nursing staff of the same sex, so t...
Following the cataclysmic events of the First World War, the country experienced an economic downturn. As the recession took hold, mental asylums in England needed to make cuts. As a result, there were a series of disputes in other asylums which were mostly successful but some, such as one held at Exeter City Asylum in 1919, were not so effective. ...
On 11 April, a sit-in strike began. Female nursing staff took the lead, and they were supported by kitchen and domestic workers. Some of the male staff joined in and three out of the six male wards on the ground floor were occupied. In taking this action, the staff were still able to care for their patients and could not be accused of abandoning th...
The strikers turned fire hoses on them until the water was turned off at the mains. The artisans tried to unlock the doors but found that the staff had jammed them with home-made keys. The bailiffs then took over and started to break down the doors with crow bars and fought their way across improvised barricades to take back control of the wards. A...
Nottinghamshire County Asylum, Radcliffe War Hospital, Radcliffe Mental Hospital. Location:? Henson Lane, Radcliffe on Trent, Nottinghamshire. Principal Architect:? Edwin Purnell Hooley. Layout:? Compact Arrow Plan. Status:? Converted to housing. Opened: 29th July 1902. Closed:? Christmas 1988.
5 set 2021 · Nottingham News. How former Notts mental hospital site still shows signs of its past with bricked up doors to underground tunnels. Its' now an upmarket housing estate, but Upper Saxondale was once...
- Penny Stretton
25 apr 2022 · The Radcliffe Asylum had been opened in 1902 as a mental asylum for the poor of Nottinghamshire and by the time of the dispute, twenty years later, it had over 600 inpatients. Like all asylums in this period, it had sexually segregated wards, where patients were cared for by nursing staff of the same sex.
Saxondale Hospital. Opened in 1902, Radcliffe Asylum was the County Lunatic Asylum for Nottinghamshire. The hospital went through many name changes. Initially called the Radcliffe Asylum it then became Radcliffe Mental Hospital. During the First World War it became a hospital for shell-shocked soldiers and was called Radcliffe Military Hospital.
The Infirmary Governors accepted the trust and the responsibility, the rest of the money was raised by public subscription, and the hospital finally opened as the Radcliffe Asylum in 1826. It was renamed the Warneford in 1843 in honour of its greatest benefactor Samuel Wilson Warneford (1763-1855), who gave property and cash to the value of ...
