| Description | A collection of adminstration papers and patient case files from Rainhill Hospital. Rainhill Hospital opened on the 1st January 1851 with additional wings completed in 1860. It became the County Lunatic Asylum, Rainhill in 1861. It then became the County Mental Hospital in 1923. At the peak of its activity, in the 1930s, there were approximately 3,000 inpatients resident in the hospital. From 1938 to 1949 the admissions part of the hospital served as a Royal Naval Auxiliary Hospital. And then in 1948 the hospital joined the National Health Service and became Rainhill Mental Hospital. Following the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s, services transferred to Aintree Hospital and Whiston Hospital; the Avon Division closed in 1987 and the Sherdley Division closed in June 1992. The Scott Clinic, a medium secure facility, moved to new facilities on the Sherdley Division site. The facility was demolished in late 1992. The site was initially acquired by Pilkington Glass for development of a new headquarters but instead Pilkington decided to sell off the site for residential use. The site has been developed and is now known as Reeve Court. |