The East Essex County Mental Asylum opened its doors in 1903. It is built close to the small village of Hellingly, in South West England. The architect G.T. Hine designed the Victorian hospital on a very large scale, spreading the many buildings on a huge campus.
Isolated from everything, having only one single road and its own train line, the psychatric asylum remained self-sufficient for years.
Patients & staff used to live under the same roof in the many red bricks buildings linked by closed hallways, and offering "therapeutic" and relaxing views onthe surrounding quiet and green countryside.
The asylum closed its doors in 1994; since then it is decaying, forgotten and rotting in the middle of nowhere...
I am very interested to read you had access to old patients notes at Hellingly. My grandmother (about whom I am writing a book) was incarcerated there from January 1941 to April 1956. All I know is she had Electric Shock Therapy and a Lobotomy as part of her treatment as her records have been destroyed. I'd love to hear your stories if you would be kind enough to share what you know - in strictest confidence of course.
Would you please let me know when your book is finished and where I might be able to buy a copy please?? Thanks so much,
Mrs Becca Clayton
claytonbecca@icloud.com
PS. Is the actual address #10 Brighton Road, Crawley, East Sussex??
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