Tyne and Wear HER(7865): Bensham Lunatic Asylum - Details
7865
Gateshead
Bensham Lunatic Asylum
Bensham
NZ26SW
Health and Welfare
Hospital
Psychiatric Hospital
Early Modern
C19
Documentary Evidence
The Bensham Lunatic Asylum was enlcosed within extensive grounds. In 1932 one of the buildings near to Bensham railway station was in use as a motor garage, another building became St. Cuthbert's Church Institute (in Sidney Grove). Both had iron-framed windows. The asylum was known as Glentons, after one of the proprietors. The asylum was founded around 1830 and was in use until around 1875 when the inmates were moved to Garbutt's Asylum at Dunston.
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6212
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D. Lumley, 1932, The Story of Gateshead Town - From the earliest age to the mid Victorian, p 124-125