Housing Estate on Site of Powick Mental Hospital
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Housing Estate on Site of Powick Mental Hospital
Image: © Bob Embleton Taken: 9 Nov 2005
The Worcestershire County Asylum opened here in 1852. Edward Elgar was appointed bandmaster in 1878. It was famous for using LSD on patients in the 1960s. I had Electro Convulsive Therapy (ECT) here for severe clinical depression in 1974. It closed in 1996.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.153387
Longitude
-2.263045