Detail View: Photography Collection:

Image Number: 
JRL17092435
Reference Number: 
VPH.8.9
Image Title: 
View of the shelter pavilion at the female chronic block, Menston Asylum
Parent Work Title: 
The West Riding Asylum, Menston, Yorkshire. 1901.
Creator: 
Unknown
Creator Role: 
Photographer
Date Created: 
1901
Page/Sheet: 
9
Image Sequence Number: 
9
Description: 
View of the shelter pavilion at the female chronic block, Menston Asylum. An ornamented, rectangular wooden shelter, open on two sides, in the style of seaside shelters. Each of the recreation courts contained at least one shelter for patient use. The shelters were originally supplied by the firm of Boulton and Paul during the late 1890s and in 1901. Most of the ladies are seated on the benches within the shelter, with one lady sat on the floor of the shelter and four sat on a bench opposite the pavilion. The nurses can be identified by their long dark dresses, long white aprons and white caps.
Keyword: 
Gelatin Silver Print, Architecture, Landscape, Victorian, Menston, Institutions, Leeds, Bradford, High Royds, Hospitals.
Language: 
English
Language Code: 
eng-GB
Subject: 
Photography--History--20th century
Subject: 
Great Britain--History
Subject: 
Asylums
Subject: 
Psychiatric hospitals
Subject: 
Medicine--History
Category of Material: 
Photography
Sub-Category: 
Analogue photography
Technique Used: 
Gelatin silver prints
Support: 
Paper
Creation Site: 
England: West Yorkshire: Bradford: Menston
Time Period Covered: 
20th Century CE
Places Covered: 
England: West Yorkshire: Bradford: Menston
Item Height: 
107 mm
Item Width: 
152 mm
Current Repository: 
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance: 
Dr Thomas O'Conor Donelan, decd. 22nd February 1914, former owner.
Rights Holder - Image: 
The University of Manchester Library
Rights Holder - Work: 
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights: 
Creative Commons License
Bibliography: 
Notes: 
References have been found to the Hospital under the following names: The Third West Riding County Lunatic Asylum, West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum and Menston Asylum; It was later named High Royds Hospital. The inscription at the front of the volume is the name 'Dr T O' Conor Donelan, Menston Asylum, Leeds Nov. 19. 1901' Dr O' Conor Donelan, worked at the asylum until 1905.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd): 
2017-09-20
Image Creation Technique: 
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 
2017-09
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB