Prestwich Hospital

Here Chrissie McBride remembers 463/465 Bury New Road, when the houses were filled with mad and incredible characters...

The Fall co-founder, Una Baines, worked at Prestwich Hospital and Mark E Smith made lots of references to it in his work...

In 2013 there was an investigation about Jimmy Savile abusing a young girl at Prestwich Hospital in 1960. Warning! Contains horrific details...

UNISON, biggest public sector trade union in the country owes its formation, in part to Prestwich Hospital staff...

Local historical collector, Craig Brisbane, has amassed an amazing collection of items relating to Prestwich Hospital...

After the hospital’s Doctor Montagu Lomax published his book, The Experiences of an Asylum Doctor in 1921, the country changed its attitude towards people with mental health problems...

Interviews with ex-staff from the hospital shine a light on some gruesome goings on...

The good, the bad and the very ugly!

What is it? What did it change? And just how important is the hospital that led to improved care for the whole country and was instrumental in the beginnings of the trade union movement?