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Originally Posted by garinda

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.

I did some maintenance work at Calderstones and we had to be accompanied at all times by members of staff, it was quite scary at time I can tell you