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Topic: Broadmoor/Berkshire Asylums (Read 383 times)
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Hollylianne
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Hi all,
After doing some research, I am still confused. Can anyone tell me the difference between Broadmoor and Berkshire Asylums. Are they different? I think they are.
Thanks
Hollie
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CaroleW
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Broadmoor is for the criminally insane. Berkshire was just for the insane
Search on Google will give you their respective histories
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behindthefrogs
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I think the main point is that Berkshire Asylum also known as Fair Mile was the county asylum founded as a result of the 1845 act which required all counties to have a mental asylum.
Broadmoor Asylum is a prison which has a national role. If like me you live within a few miles of it you are reminded of the severity of its role every Monday morning at 10am when they test the escape sirens.
David
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Living in Berkshire. From Northampton & Milton Keynes DETAILS OF THE FOLLOWING NAMES ARE IN SURNAME INTERESTS, LINK AT FOOT OF PAGE Wilson, Higgs, Buswell, PARCELL, Matthews, TAMKIN, Seckington, Pates, Coupland, Webb, Arthur, MAYNARD, Caves, Norman, Winch, Culverhouse, Drakeley. Johnson, Routledge, SHIRT, SAICH, Mills, SAUNDERS, EDLIN, Perry, Vickers, Pakeman, Griffiths, Marston, Turner, Child, Sheen, Gray, Woolhouse Census Info is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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corndolly
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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Interesting to note the comments on Broadmoor, agree we all know it as a prison for the criminally insane, but it comes under the auspices of the N.H.S, and as such I believe is classed as a hospital rather than a prison.
As a hospital, I believe you can also 'place' yourself in it.
corndolly
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behindthefrogs
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You are correct of course Broadmoor is a hospital. The reason that I regard Broadmoor as a prison is that living within three miles of it I suffer the practice sounding of its alarm siren at 10.00 am every Monday morning. Mind you that is much better than when there was an escape when the siren sounds all night. Fortunately this has only happened twice in the forty years I have lived here.
David
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Living in Berkshire. From Northampton & Milton Keynes DETAILS OF THE FOLLOWING NAMES ARE IN SURNAME INTERESTS, LINK AT FOOT OF PAGE Wilson, Higgs, Buswell, PARCELL, Matthews, TAMKIN, Seckington, Pates, Coupland, Webb, Arthur, MAYNARD, Caves, Norman, Winch, Culverhouse, Drakeley. Johnson, Routledge, SHIRT, SAICH, Mills, SAUNDERS, EDLIN, Perry, Vickers, Pakeman, Griffiths, Marston, Turner, Child, Sheen, Gray, Woolhouse Census Info is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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