Licenced today: Chevin Park, a new housing development in Menston, near Leeds. The gloomy and forbidding complex, originally known as the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum, was opened in 1888. I remember it as High Royds Psychiatric Hospital, one of the many institutions where Jimmy Savile is known to have sexually abused both patients and staff (a hospital porter said he was asked by Savile if there was a room he could use if “he pulled one of the nurses”). After the hospital was closed, in 2003, it was transformed into upmarket retirement homes…
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