I worked here as a nurse from 1977 to 1984.
The hospital closed in the mid ninety’s. Since then the various responsible bodies have followed a policy of wilful neglect of this historic site. The buildings have all been allowed to crumble until they were in such a state that they could never be repaired.
We should not forget that our society as recently as 20 years ago sent thousands of people to these places, where underpaid and overworked staff struggled to provide the care that society refused to give them.
In November and December 2006 the last few buildings that could remind anybody what once stood here were bulldozed away. The new housing estate, named "Netherhall" a name that has no relation to the past is partly opened for business. No memorial to the hospital has been allowed to remain.
I was able (without permission) to make some photographic records of the last of the hospital.
Pete Marshall
January 2007 about this site