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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.
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Jaysay I think Calderstones was more for serious mentally ill people but I never when there I went to Brockhall with my school, so I know what it was like and it was quite open in places.
Did you ever go there? It wasn't like an asylum at all - as I remember parts of it were more like a council estate and some of the patients lived in small houses and were free to move about within a small area. Some of these we met had downes syndrome there were other places I think that were more high security.
There was also one patient who had a pet buzzard and he was allowed to fly that - patients were also gardners and some grew vegetables. so I would think this kind of environment would be better for people with these kind of health problems than some small hospital type structure next to a school.
The issue is not hiding people away but rather that they are not in some cramped hutch in the middle of a town. But as i don't know the exact location of this site mentioned in this thread - I don't know how small it will be.