The Rise and Demise of the Lunatic Asylums in Derby ; to Mark Mental Health Awareness Day, Maxwell Craven has Been Investigating the Development and Fate of Derby's Former Lunatic Asylums for a Bbc Television Programme to Be Broadcast Tomorrow. Here, He Tells Readers What He Discovered.

Derby Evening Telegraph › October 10, 2007

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To mark Mental Health Awareness Day, Maxwell Craven has been investigating the development and fate of Derby's former lunatic asylums for a BBC television programme to be broadcast tomorrow. Here, he tells readers what he discovered.

Thanks to the still controversial Care in the Community programme, many of Britain's mental institutions - formerly termed lunatic asylums - are rapidly going out of use.

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The Rise and Demise of the Lunatic Asylums in Derby ; to Mark Mental Health Awareness Day, Maxwell Craven has Been Investigating the Development and Fate of Derby's Former Lunatic Asylums for a Bbc Television Programme to Be Broadcast Tomorrow. Here, He Tells Readers What He Discovered.

The choice today is mostly between demolition of these impressive structures or re-using them in some way.

In Derby, at one time, we had two major asylums - the Derbyshire County Asylum, latterly Pastures Hospital, on the western edge of Mickleover, dating from 1849,...

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