Woking Centre
Trinity Church, Brewery Road, Woking, GU21 4LH
For map click hereCo-ordinator Chris Leech
Email: woking@wsfhs.orgSecond Thursday in month
The doors will open at 7.45pm and the meeting will start at 7.50pm.
2026
| Date | Doors Open | Start Time | Title | Speaker | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu | 11 Jun | 7.45 pm | 7.50 pm | Out of Sight, Out of Mind? Sources for the History of Surrey's Mental Hospitals, 1770 to circa 1990. | Julian Pooley |
Forthcoming Meetings
June 11 2026
Julian Pooley - Out of Sight, Out of Mind? Sources for the History of Surrey's Mental Hospitals, 1770 to circa 1990.Was your ancestor in a Surrey asylum? This talk traces the history of people living with mental illness and learning disability in Surrey from the 18th century through to the 1990s. Using the records of the earliest private asylums, county institutions at Springfield, Brookwood and Netherne, charitable foundations like Royal Earlswood and Holloway Sanatorium and the 'Epsom Cluster' of Horton, Long Grove, The Manor, St Ebba's and West Park, it tells the story of mental health care in Surrey, uses medical records to uncover the hidden stories of patients and the care regime they experienced and draws on photographs and other records rescued when these vast hospitals finally closed to explore daily life in a psychiatric institution over three centuries.