Stories - This is Your Hospital

The stories featured in the film clips on this web resource represent into just a few of the many thousands of experiences of Warlingham Park Hospital. Week by week staff at Bethlem Museum of the Mind are assisting with fresh enquiries from those with ancestors who were once at the Hospital.

Only a minority of patients admitted spent the remainder of their lives at the Hospital. However, those that died while still patients form the subject of the majority of genealogical history enquiries nowadays, via the details of place of death given on a death certificate. There are thousands of others who recovered and left the Hospital without leaving any trace in the records of officialdom for the family historians of future generations to discover (apart from the Hospital’s own records, of course). By the kind permission of some of the relatives of those that did leave a paper trail for others to follow, we present a few of their stories.