***Completed***Calderstones Mental Hospital

[byrneli]

I hope someone can help i need to find some patient information but dont know where to start. 

All i know if the name was Robert Walsh born 1919 in Chorlton.  He was my dads brother and was sent there the family never spoke about it and as my dad has died i dont know where to start.

I do know he was later transferred to a Hospital in Radcliffe but not sure on the name or where. 

Any info where i can start would be helpful

Thanks

Lisa

[Mr. MIGKY]

Only one i can think of was " Florence Nightingale Hospital "  in Radcliffe and is still there to this day, but not sure if they took mentally ill patients or just Infectious diseases ?

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords/details.asp?id=1757&page=21

Wonder why he was not sent to Prestwich hospital?
Migky

[lizanne]

My husband's family come from Radcliffe . I have just spoken to my MIL who's in her eighties and she knows nothing of a mental hospital there.
There was however one at Radcliffe on Trent Notts., I think it was called Saxondale.
You may find more information on the Nottinghamshire boards.

This link may give you more help re Lunatic Asylums.

http://web.archive.org/web/20070718040644/http://www.mdx.ac.uk/WWW/STUDY/4_13_Ta.htm#East%20Midlands

The Florence Nightingale Hospital was just a little cottage hospital .

[Mr. MIGKY]

Any records for the above hospital and Prestwich hospital can be found at GMCR. They do a free ( now not sure if it is 15 or 30 min ) search.
Greater Manchester County Record Office (with Manchester Archives)

56 Marshall Street
New Cross
Manchester
M4 5FU

Telephone:  0161 832 5284

email        archiveslocalstudies[at]manchester.gov.uk    Notes* swop [at] for @ in the email address.

Migky  

[byrneli]

Thanks for the help

I think it was just a home that he was sent to in radcliffe not a mental one.  I am trying to fine a little more info so i can post it on here to see if you can help. 

Thanks for the other replies i will look into them

Lisa

[byrneli]

I have just find out that he got moved to Redbank home in radcliffe and died there.  Does anyone know where i can get the info for Redbank from.

Appartlently when they closed calderstones they moved residances back into the community.  But that is all my mum knows

Thanks

Lisa

[ScouseBoy]

Not quite sure of the geography of that area,  but Prestwich was a large hospital in that vicinity.

But it is likely that they have destroyed a large proportion of the records for that date, simply because of the space taken up by storage.

[Mr. MIGKY]

It might be worth you contacting Bury archives to see if they hold any records on Redbank?

http://www.bury.gov.uk/leisureandculture/libraries/archives/default.asp

What name and when did he die?

Migky 

[Mr. MIGKY]

Also i am not sure you would be given much personal details of any inmate/patient with them dieing so soon. Think the hundred year rule applies here? but could be wrong?

Migky