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Originally Posted by kestrelx
There used to be that massive hospital up near Whalley was it Brockall? Anyway we once went on a school trip there to look at issues of mental health etc. It was a massive place - should have kept places like that open as it was out in the country side. Don't think it's right to have a place like this in confined space - should be in the open with more grounds round it.
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Totally different.
People were incarcerated for life in Brockhall, and similar Victorian asylums such as Calderstones, for such things as having a child out of wedlock, and we're talking post World War II, not when these places were built.
Happily we've moved on somewhat since then.
I genuinely hope that if you were unfortunate enough ever to suffer from dementia, or other mental health issues, such as clinical depression,, you're cared for somewhere that's easily accessible to your friends and family, and the rest of society in general.
Rather than hidden away in the middle of nowhere, behind the walls of some dreadful asylum.