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Details: Powick Hospital, Worcester

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Name

  

Present name

Powick Hospital 

Previous name(s)

Powick Lunatic Asylum (1852 - ?); Worcestershire City and County Pauper Lunatic Asylum;
Worcester County and City Lunatic Asylum (by 1902 - c.1949)
Powick Mental Hospital (1950 - 1955 at the latest)  

Address

Powick Worcester WR2 4SH 

Previous location


Foundation Year

1852 

Closed

Yes 

Closure year

c1989 

Administrative authorities

Regional Hospital Board (1948-74)

Birmingham 

Hospital Management Committee (1948-74)

South Worcestershire 

Regional Health Authority (1974-82)

West Midlands 

Regional Health Authority (1982- )

West Midlands 

District Health Authority (1974-82)

Worcester 

District Health Authority (1982- )

Worcester and District 

County (before 1974)

Worcestershire 

County (1974-1996)

Hereford and Worcest 

County (after 1996)

Not applicable 

Status

Pre 1948

Local Authority

Post 1948

NHS

Type

Pre 1948

Mental

Post 1948

Mental

 

Records can be found at:
notes

  Worcestershire Record Office

Record type

Date range

Administrative

1745 - 1984

   General

1845 - 1978

   Finance

1847 - 1945

   Estates

1745 - 1955

   Admission & Discharge

1845 - 1963

   Ephemera

1895 - 1978

   Pictorial

1953 - 1984

   Private Papers

1888 - 1888

   Other

1968 - 1968

Clinical & Patients

1852 - 1988

Finding aids

Finding aids

Catalogue

Location of finding aids

At Repository(AR), Local Record Office (LRO)

Details

County Hall RO

 
 
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