Carlton Hayes Hospital

Carlton Hayes Hospital, Narborough, Leicester was the psychiatric hospital of Leicestershire from 1904 to 1995.[1]

The complex was built to the designs of S. P. Pick (Samuel Perkins Pick, 1858-1919), a well-known Leicester architect in Art Nouveau style. The complex was demolished after 1996, and the site redeveloped by the Alliance and Leicester Building Society for their new headquarters.

Philip Larkin's mother was a patient in the hospital in 1956. He described it as "large and dingy as a London terminus".[2]

References

  1. ↑ Nursing Times, Nursing Mirror 1991 - Volume 87, Issues 18-22 - Page 101 "As part of our strategic objective of developing Leicestershire's mental health services, in 1995 we will be transferring the Acute Psychiatric Wards from Carlton Hayes and the Towers Hospital to a 120 bedded Unit with day hospital and ..."
  2. ↑ Kynaston, David (2009). Family Britain 1951-7. London: Bloomsbury. p. 628. ISBN 9780747583851.
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