I have just received publication details of a book "
A Place in the Country: Three Counties Asylum 1860-1999" by Judith Pettigrew, Rory W Reynolds & Sandra Rouse (
Hertfordshire Publications, 2017). and because of what happened to my daughters
Lucy and
Belinda I am very interested the the mental health provision in Hertfordshire, and its history. I hope to get a copy of this book (perhaps as a Xmas present) and when I do I will be adding a review to the
Genealogy in Hertfordshire web site - together with a brief history of this interesting asylum, later called Fairfield, which was constructed near the Herts and beds border.
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The receipt of details of the book reminded me that the mental health information on my site needed a face-lift and some updating. There is now a new subject button
ASYLUMS, and an associated information page. I have also made some useful updates to the page on the
Early Mad Houses in St Albans & Harpenden relating to the private asylum operated from Oster Hills and Harpenden Hall by James Rumball and his son..
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| from Herts Mercury, 1847 |
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