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Great Britain St Martins Hosp - Sept 21

BikinGlynn

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St Martins Hospital

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Been done to death but here's my take, Iv tried to keep pics a bit different.
Im not surprised to be honest despite the "used for police training signs" which I think may actually be true in this instance its just about the easiest hospital Iv done.

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Im sure you know this bit but stole it from last report by @UnknownAX
St Martin's Hospital, which was designed by William Joseph Jennings and Gray using a compact arrow layout, opened in 1902. The hospital became Canterbury City Mental Hospital in the 1920s and joined the National Health Service as St Martin's Hospital in 1948.
From the local government reorganisations of 1889, Canterbury was designated as a County Borough, administratively independent from the remainder of Kent. This autonomy also necessitated the provision of asylum care for the mentally ill of the city within it’s own premises or under an arrangement elsewhere satisfactory to the Commissioners in Lunacy who were responsible for requirements were met.

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Until the provision of its own asylum, Canterbury therefore utilised space purchased under contract at other County or Borough asylums, or private institutions such as Fisherton House, Salisbury
The expense incurred in providing an asylum was usually discouraging enough to the majority smaller county boroughs unless pressure for finding space, cost of boarding or compulsion due to pressure from the Commissioners in Lunacy forced them to do so. However advantages were also to be gained as lucrative business could be gained in disposing of excess capacity to other authorities and to private, fee-paying patients.

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Canterbury was one of the smallest of all English county boroughs to construct its own asylum, with it’s opening in 1902 enabling transferral of the borough’s mentally ill much closer to home. Correspondingly, the building itself was also one of the smallest of its time, with approx 250 beds in comparison with between 1,000 to 2,500 at other contemporaries.
A site was purchased to the west of the city on the Littlebourne Road. The land had previously been developed as a manor house and its grounds. The building, known as Stone House was utilised as accommodation for private female patients within the grounds.
The firm engaged for the design of the project was William Joseph Jennings and Gray who were local architects.

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My personal favourite part here was the old mortuary turned into a workshop. I think this is still used for their feeble attempts to board this place up.

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Ok then here are a few that you expect to see from here.

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Thanks For Looking
 

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Still haven't made it here yet. Looks pretty cool in there
 
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