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Originally Posted by kestrelx
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.
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Oh your certainly right there kestralx Calderstones and Brockhall and indeed Langho Colony were very different places, there were some very disturbed people in Calderstones
When I was serving my time as a joiner I worked in Whalley just down the road from Calderstones, some of the staff actually worked on the site part time on their days of, and some of the tales we used to hear were terrible. There was one patient who had a mania for breaking those cast iron grate covers and eating them, he was rushed into hospital on a few occasions due to this, the only way they stopped him was they made one out of wood and when he couldn't break it, it put him off