Fantastic explore, not as naturally decayed as most people would like but loads of fun dodging Mr security, who is uber active!!!! Apologies to the 3 lads we bumped inot in the corridor in the dark, i proper sh@ it 
Anyhow history wise its be done loads lately so i though ide try to find something untold...
1863 Recommendation that the borough build an asylum for 200
1871 Leicester, Mickleover and Burntwood asylums refused to accept new Derby patients
November 1888 Derby Borough Asylum opened for 27 patients, transferred from Leicester. Size 300
1899 to 1902 Erection of a separate building for private female patients (Later Albany House).
1924 Thornhill House and gardens acquired
1929 Thornhill House opened for 40 female mental defectives
1932-1933 new nurses' home built.
1935 Thornhill House housed 40 female child patients under the care of the matron, Miss Kathleen McGrenery, and Dr John Bain.
1938 Kingsway House built on the north edge of what had been Thornhill's gardens. Intended as an an admission block". "Kingsway House is an art deco architectural tour-de-force". (Maxwell Craven)
1953 Farm "reduced to a remnant ... after the Second World War, when farm work was no long considered therapeutic." - Half the farm buildings were demolished, leaving the rest for storage.
1962 (Hospital Plan): 864 beds in 1960. Expected to fall to 600 by 1975.
May 1966 Fire damage to Thornhill House. Sometime after it became a day centre.
1979: 535 beds
apparently the "Hospital plan" was not a map as i though lol...
January 1962: The Hospital Plan
Envisaged:
cutting mental illness beds from 151,899 (in 1960) to 99,090 by 1975 increasing mental handicap beds from 59,840 (in 1960) to 63,620 by 1975 a "considerable" increase in psychiatric units in general hospitals - for short stay (three months or less) patients (outlined in circular HM(61)25) even greater reductions in the number of mental illness beds with alternative community provision.
closure of thirteen of the existing 109 mental illness hospitals with 400 or more beds by 1975
possible closure of another nine of the large hospitals after 1975 leaving 87 to continue indefinitely. Most long term care would be in these old hospitals. The size of most would be reduced, but 25 would still have 1,000 or more beds by 1975. Oxford region planned wards for medium or long stay patients near District General Hospitals.
Whos footprints were they????
This was a bit exciting, never seen body fridges before
Viewing room
Hello Green bath
Lots of photo, but it was my birthday explore so my non explorer friend was NOT allowed to moan!!!
Anyhow history wise its be done loads lately so i though ide try to find something untold...
1863 Recommendation that the borough build an asylum for 200
1871 Leicester, Mickleover and Burntwood asylums refused to accept new Derby patients
November 1888 Derby Borough Asylum opened for 27 patients, transferred from Leicester. Size 300
1899 to 1902 Erection of a separate building for private female patients (Later Albany House).
1924 Thornhill House and gardens acquired
1929 Thornhill House opened for 40 female mental defectives
1932-1933 new nurses' home built.
1935 Thornhill House housed 40 female child patients under the care of the matron, Miss Kathleen McGrenery, and Dr John Bain.
1938 Kingsway House built on the north edge of what had been Thornhill's gardens. Intended as an an admission block". "Kingsway House is an art deco architectural tour-de-force". (Maxwell Craven)
1953 Farm "reduced to a remnant ... after the Second World War, when farm work was no long considered therapeutic." - Half the farm buildings were demolished, leaving the rest for storage.
1962 (Hospital Plan): 864 beds in 1960. Expected to fall to 600 by 1975.
May 1966 Fire damage to Thornhill House. Sometime after it became a day centre.
1979: 535 beds
apparently the "Hospital plan" was not a map as i though lol...
January 1962: The Hospital Plan
Envisaged:
cutting mental illness beds from 151,899 (in 1960) to 99,090 by 1975 increasing mental handicap beds from 59,840 (in 1960) to 63,620 by 1975 a "considerable" increase in psychiatric units in general hospitals - for short stay (three months or less) patients (outlined in circular HM(61)25) even greater reductions in the number of mental illness beds with alternative community provision.
closure of thirteen of the existing 109 mental illness hospitals with 400 or more beds by 1975
possible closure of another nine of the large hospitals after 1975 leaving 87 to continue indefinitely. Most long term care would be in these old hospitals. The size of most would be reduced, but 25 would still have 1,000 or more beds by 1975. Oxford region planned wards for medium or long stay patients near District General Hospitals.
Whos footprints were they????
This was a bit exciting, never seen body fridges before
Viewing room
Hello Green bath
Lots of photo, but it was my birthday explore so my non explorer friend was NOT allowed to moan!!!
