Friern Barnet, Halliwick Hospital, Friern Barnet Road c.1965
Photo ref:
F187014
More about this scene
This functional machine for healing people, quite new when the photograph was taken, contrasts dramatically in its simple, almost domestic design with its very close neighbour, the Colney Hatch Asylum to its south-east. Here is a pauper asylum of gigantic proportions, built to house 1,000 patients and designed by S W Daukes in 1851. As with Hanwell Asylum, the humanitarian principles evolving from revised scientific thinking were implemented, but even so, the long, cold corridors were seriously intimidating. Much of this remarkable building has been demolished over the past decade to accommodate a not particularly complimentary flat conversion.
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