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Halliday Square, SOUTHALL, UB2 4UQ

The spire to the hospital chapel is in the background.

Osterly Park is on the right (a private residential complex). The spire is that of the St. Bernards' Hospital Chapel. The blue building in the background is Ealing Hospital. The road junction on the left is Halliday Square.

Further up the road is where the Iron Bridge (railway) is located.

Ealing Hospital can be seen in the background. Alderson Place is the junction off to the left.

These buildings are the West Lodge and, behind it, the Chapel to St Bernard's Hospital, once the Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum and the first purpose-built asylum in England and Wales, opening in 1831. There is a comprehensive history of the place in its Wikipedia article here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanwell_Asylum The lodge is shown on the Ordnance Survey map of 1868 so certainly dates from before. There was once an East Lodge too, but that has since been demolished. The chapel is later, dating from 1880, and was built at the northern end of the asylum's original chapel. Both the lodge and the chapel are Grade II Listed Buildings.

This photograph was taken from the car park in Osterley Gardens (the sister development to Osterley Views) Osterley Views/Gardens is the site of St Bernard's wing (mental hospital), part of Ealing Hospital. Parts of the St. Bernard's wing is still in operation. St. Bernard's has been previously known as: Middlesex County Asylum, Hanwell (1831 - 1889) London County Asylum, Hanwell (1889 - 1917) London County Mental Hospital (1918 - 1928) Hanwell Mental Hospital (1929 - 1937) St Bernard's Hospital (1938 - 1980) In its heyday it was accommodating the largest number of patients of any asylum in Britain, and within ten years of its opening, it had become (according to the historians of psychiatry Hunter and Macalpine) "the most famous and the most controversial mental hospital in the world". Upon his appointment as Hanwell's medical superintendent in 1839, Dr John Conolly abolished all forms of mechanical restraint, and introduced the non-coercive "moral management" of patients. The principles of non-restraint were not invented by Conolly. They emerged from the York Retreat, founded by William Tuke in 1796 and run by three successive generations of the Tuke family. Nevertheless Conolly's successful implementation of non-restraint at Hanwell was one of the factors in its general adoption in Britain and in other parts of Western Europe. By the time of his first European journey in 1853, Daniel Hack Tuke, later one of Conolly's successors as medical superintendent at Hanwell, demonstrated a keen interest in the spread of "moral therapy" across Europe.