My Grandmother In Runwell Hospital

A Memory of Runwell.

Whilst researching my ancestry I learned that his mother, my Grandmother Beatrice Emily Sharp died in 1969 in Runwell Mental Hospital (as it was called then). I never knew her but know of this place as although it closed in 1999 I lived in Wickford, just down the road. She may have been an inpatient from 1959 - 69 as her husband died in 1959 and she may not have been able to care for herself after he died. Unfortunately I will never know more than the cause of what she died of gained from her death cert., as records are sealed for 100 years.

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