barrow

I found myself in Bristol for work this week so one evening I decided to leave my hotel and go for a quick walk around this place. Despite the workmen still on site doing something to the front building and the lurkers in one part of the building banging about it was pretty mellow. Plenty of...

Barrow Hospital (sometimes referred to as Barrow Gurney Hospital) was a psychiatric hospital in Barrow Gurney, Somerset The hospital was designed by Sir George Oatley of Bristol to the then-innovative colony plan based on detached 'villas' centred around a central cluster of service buildings...

visited with obscurity and Mrs obs ... a little history ... The hospital was first built between 1934-1937 with the first patients being admitted in 1938. Barrow was built in a more modern style than the nearby Bristol Lunatic Asylum - The Glenside, which was a huge imposing Victorian building...

Date opened: 3rd May 1939 Location: Wild Country Lane, Barrow Gurney, nr. Long Ashton, Somerset Architect: Sir George Oatley, of Bristol Layout: Colony Plan Used During The War By The Military. After a night in the mines, we headed over to meet up with Vdubs for a look around some of the...