Wadsley Asylum Sheffield

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Not a lot left apart from the church. The rest being converted.

Interesting all the same, opened in 1872 as the 2nd West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum.

The conversion of Kingswood is quite nice.





Kingswood







The Chapel









The Pauper Graveyard a short drive from the Asylum.



Memorial to the War Dead at Wharncliffe War Hospital, Wadsley was taken over by the army in 1915 and renamed Wharncliffe all the patients transferred to the other West Riding Asylums for the period of the war.

http://highroydspauperlunaticasylum..../c1644472.html

For those interested in more about the war years hit the link above, its work in progress so its not complete.

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Look at how large it used to be