Winwick Hospital, Warrington

The Hospital

An aerial view of the hospital. A White

(Courtesy of Jonathan Webb)

View from Winwick Road. ©UJ West View from F8Down airing court. ©UJ West

View from laundry yard. ©UJ West Front entrance. ©UJ West

The History

First floor plan of Winwick from the 1895 architectural drawings (courtesy of Nigel Roberts).

The original 'Red Handbook', precursor of the one Bailliere, Tindall and Cox published in the 1950's as the 'Handbook on Mental Nursing'. The original was the foundation of the RMPA examination to provide professional standards in the care of the mentally ill. The later one marked the creation of the professional Registered Mental Nurse qualification.

Garden of Remembrance



Winwick Hospital Garden of Remembrance, containing graves of patients from Winwick and Newchurch Hospitals who died between 1901 and 1971.

The Staff

The hospital band (? 1940s).

Harry Griffin with a class of 1959, including Barbara Connor, Una ?, Margaret Thomas and Joyce Taylor.
Harry Griffin, Monique Nation and Joan Lowe with a class of 1959, including Wes Grodowicz, George Jolley, Margaret Thomas, Alan Smithers, Joyce Taylor, Don Addison, John Molyneux and Gary Say.

May 1964 Prizegiving. Back row: David McKendrick, Geoff Houghton, Ivan Foottit, Harry Dean, Geoff Harrison, Bert Everest, Tom O'Brien, Danny Molloy, John Bryant, Keith Wills, ?; Second row: ?, Doris Rigby, Ann Berry, Jean Puzzar, Martha Woods, ?,?, Ethel Latham, Norah Talbot, Monica Hesketh, Elizabeth McNulty, ?,?,?,?,Mary Rouse; Front row: Wilf Morris, Brian Ward, Percy Martin, Mrs Martin, Fred Lee MP, Theresa Reid, Andrew Moss, ?,?,?,?.

A group of nurses in the sixties - Muriel Craddock, Sue Hutchinson, Marion McKendrick, Jenny Broome.
Sports teams with Joe Jolley, early seventies.
Ladies' football team, early seventies.

1969/70 Finalists.
June 1970 Finalists.
October 1970 PTS. From left to right: (Standing) Eric Potts, Peggy Lovelace, Brian Nugent, Norma Appleton, Dave Coulter, George O'Mahoney, Jean Midgely. (Sitting) Dorothy Forrest, Cathy Burke, Jean Llewellyn Adriene Appleton and Marilyn Windle

May 1971 Prizegiving. Christian Errigadoo, John Butler, Terry Pilling, Bob Amponfi, Arthur Charnock, Malcolm Barr, Roy Lenagan, Bob Florer, John Settle, Alban Green, ?, ?, Linda Sweeting, ?, ?,; Third row: John Molloy, Brenda Holt, Kath Sharp, Marie Bailey, ?, ?, Muriel Craddock, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?; Second row: Eddie Newall, ?, Marion McKendrick, Jean D'Arcy, ?, ?, Jean Riley, Brenda Mercer, ?, ?; Front row: Wilf Morris, Nita Coppack, Stan Obcarskas, Alderman Ball, ?, ?, Bert Stokes, Barbara Connor, George O'Mahoney, H Andrew Moss.

March 1972.

April 1973.

1975 Prizegiving.

Winwick Club's 50th Anniversary (2004). From left to right: Bob Cameron, John Bainbridge, Paul Jennings, Les Bayliss, Fred Worrell, Frank Carroll, Neil Bates, Ian Mitchell, Arthur Badger, Eric Potts, Paddy Boland, Dickie Peake, Terry Flaherty, Alan Yates, Rose Peake, David McKendrick, Alan Ravenscroft, Dave Hamilton, Terry Lewis.

More photos of the staff

World War Two

Photos from Gladys Ashall, a nurse at the hospital during the war.

See also Laura Margaret Morton's Collection of photographs taken during the First World War when Winwick Asylum was the Lord Derby War Hospital.





The original 'Red Handbook', precursor of the one Bailliere, Tindall and Cox published in the 1950's as the 'Handbook on Mental Nursing'. The original was the foundation of the RMPA examination to provide professional standards in the care of the mentally ill. The later one marked the creation of the professional Registered Mental Nurse qualification.

May 1964 Prizegiving. Back row: David McKendrick, Geoff Houghton, Ivan Foottit, Harry Dean, Geoff Harrison, Bert Everest, Tom O'Brien, Danny Molloy, John Bryant, Keith Wills, ?; Second row: ?, Doris Rigby, Ann Berry, Jean Puzzar, Martha Woods, ?,?, Ethel Latham, Norah Talbot, Monica Hesketh, Elizabeth McNulty, ?,?,?,?,Mary Rouse; Front row: Wilf Morris, Brian Ward, Percy Martin, Mrs Martin, Fred Lee MP, Theresa Reid, Andrew Moss, ?,?,?,?.

A group of nurses in the sixties - Muriel Craddock, Sue Hutchinson, Marion McKendrick, Jenny Broome.	Sports teams with Joe Jolley, early seventies.	Ladies' football team, early seventies.
1969/70 Finalists.	June 1970 Finalists.	October 1970 PTS. From left to right: (Standing) Eric Potts, Peggy Lovelace, Brian Nugent, Norma Appleton, Dave Coulter, George O'Mahoney, Jean Midgely. (Sitting) Dorothy Forrest, Cathy Burke, Jean Llewellyn Adriene Appleton and Marilyn Windle

May 1971 Prizegiving. Christian Errigadoo, John Butler, Terry Pilling, Bob Amponfi, Arthur Charnock, Malcolm Barr, Roy Lenagan, Bob Florer, John Settle, Alban Green, ?, ?, Linda Sweeting, ?, ?,; Third row: John Molloy, Brenda Holt, Kath Sharp, Marie Bailey, ?, ?, Muriel Craddock, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?; Second row: Eddie Newall, ?, Marion McKendrick, Jean D'Arcy, ?, ?, Jean Riley, Brenda Mercer, ?, ?; Front row: Wilf Morris, Nita Coppack, Stan Obcarskas, Alderman Ball, ?, ?, Bert Stokes, Barbara Connor, George O'Mahoney, H Andrew Moss.

March 1972.	April 1973.
1975 Prizegiving.
Winwick Club's 50th Anniversary (2004). From left to right: Bob Cameron, John Bainbridge, Paul Jennings, Les Bayliss, Fred Worrell, Frank Carroll, Neil Bates, Ian Mitchell, Arthur Badger, Eric Potts, Paddy Boland, Dickie Peake, Terry Flaherty, Alan Yates, Rose Peake, David McKendrick, Alan Ravenscroft, Dave Hamilton, Terry Lewis.
More photos of the staff


	Winwick Hospital Remembered... Gallery 1