Wednesday 21 June 2023, 7.30 for 8pm

EHHS Open Meeting

Talk: The Story of Friern Hospital

Illustrated talk by author David Berguer

Jubilee Hall, Parsonage Lane, Enfield, EN2 0AJ (getting there).

The Second Middlesex County Pauper Lunatic Asylum (known to many as Colney Hatch) opened in 1851. The largest asylum in Europe (and with Europe's longest corridor), it had at its height 2,500 or more patients. This talk by David Berguer, author of The Friern Hospital Story, covers the history of the building and the treatment offered to patients, until after 142 years it was closed, as a result of the government's Care in the Community plan, in 1993.

Doors open 7.30 pm for refreshments, 8 pm for meeting.

(Non-members welcome, free to all)