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Broadmoor Hospital
Broadmoor Hospital is a high-security psychiatric hospital in Crowthorne, Berkshire, England. It is the oldest of England's three high-security psychiatric hospitals, the other two being Ashworth Hospital near Liverpool and Rampton Secure Hospital in Nottinghamshire. The hospital's catchment area consists of four National Health Service regions: London, Eastern, South East and South West. It is managed by the West London NHS Trust. History The hospital was first known as the Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum. Completed in 1863, it was built to a design by Sir Joshua Jebb, an officer of the Corps of Royal Engineers, and covered within its secure perimeter. The first patient was a female admitted for infanticide on 27 May 1863. Notes described her as being 'feeble minded'. It has been suggested by an analysis of her records that she most likely had congenital syphilis. The first male patients arrived on 27 February 1864. The original building plan of five blocks (f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West London NHS Trust
West London NHS Trust is an NHS trust which provides mental and physical health services to the London boroughs of London Borough of Ealing, Ealing, London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, Hammersmith and Fulham and London Borough of Hounslow, Hounslow. It also provides some services on a national basis, including forensic and high-security services. The trust operates across several sites, including Broadmoor Hospital in Crowthorne and St Bernard's Hospital, Hanwell, St Bernard's Hospital in Hanwell. History The trust was established as the West London Mental Health NHS Trust on 1 October 2000, and took its current name on 31 August 2018. *St Bernard's Hospital, Hanwell, Middlesex County Asylum, Hanwell (1831–1889) *London County Asylum, Hanwell (1889–1917) *London County Mental Hospital (1918–1928) *Hanwell Mental Hospital (1929–1937) *St Bernard's Hospital, Hanwell, St Bernard's Hospital (1938–1980) *Psychiatric Unit (1980–1992) – part of a re-organised c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Congenital Syphilis
Congenital syphilis is syphilis that occurs when a mother with untreated syphilis passes the infection to her baby during pregnancy or at childbirth, birth. It may present in the fetus, infant, or later. Clinical features vary and differ between early onset, that is presentation before 2-years of age, and late onset, presentation after age 2-years. Infection in the fetus, unborn baby may present as intrauterine growth restriction, poor growth, hydrops fetalis, non-immune hydrops leading to premature birth or perinatal mortality, loss of the baby, or asymptomatic, no signs. Affected newborns mostly initially have no clinical signs. They may be Low birth weight, small and irritable. Characteristic features include a rash, fever, hepatosplenomegaly, large liver and spleen, a rhinitis, runny and congested nose, and periostitis, inflammation around bone or perichondritis, cartilage. There may be jaundice, adenopathy, large glands, pneumonia (pneumonia alba), meningitis, condylomata lata ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandhurst School
Sandhurst School is a coeducational secondary school located in Sandhurst, Berkshire, England. The headteacher is Gareth Croxon. History The school was opened in 1969. The first headteacher was Bill Dally. He retired from the post in 1982. An extension was added to the school in 1971 to accommodate an additional 200 pupils and a youth wing. In 1984, teachers at the school held a "work-in" in the context of strike action. This was intended to show people how much work teachers do in their own time. In 1986, a siren was installed at the school, to be sounded if a patient escapes from Broadmoor Hospital. As of recently the siren has been decommissioned and does not sound. In 2020, the drama studio roof collapsing meant pupils had to move to temporary classrooms. Previously a community school administered by Bracknell Forest Council, in February 2022 Sandhurst School converted to academy status. It is now sponsored by the Corvus Learning Trust. Ofsted inspections As of 2025, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Second World War
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war. Tanks in World War II, Tanks and Air warfare of World War II, aircraft played major roles, enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, first and only nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II is the List of wars by death toll, deadliest conflict in history, causing World War II casualties, the death of 70 to 85 million people, more than half of whom were civilians. Millions died in genocides, including the Holocaust, and by massacres, starvation, and disease. After the Allied victory, Allied-occupied Germany, Germany, Allied-occupied Austria, Austria, Occupation of Japan, Japan, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bagshot
Bagshot is a large village in the Surrey Heath borough of Surrey, England, approximately southwest of central London. In the past, Bagshot served as an important staging post between London, Southampton and the West Country, evidenced by the original coaching inns still present in the village today. Much of the land surrounding Bagshot is owned by the Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom), Ministry of Defence. The village is adjacent to junction 3 of the M3 motorway (Great Britain), M3 motorway. Bagshot railway station is on the line between Ascot railway station (Berkshire), Ascot and Aldershot railway station, Aldershot and train services are run by South Western Railway (train operating company), South Western Railway Bagshot is part of the civil parish of Windlesham, which has a population of 17,000 and also includes the neighbouring village of Lightwater. History The place-name 'Bagshot' is first attested in the Pipe Rolls of 1165, where it appears as ''Bagsheta''. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camberley
Camberley is a town in north-west Surrey, England, around south-west of central London. It is in the Surrey Heath, Borough of Surrey Heath and is close to the county boundaries with Hampshire and Berkshire. Known originally as "Cambridge Town", it was assigned its current name by the General Post Office in 1877. Until the start of the 19th century, the area was a sparsely populated area of infertile land known as Bagshot or Frimley Heath. Following the construction of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Royal Military College at Sandhurst, Berkshire, Sandhurst in 1812, a small settlement grew up to the south and became known as Yorktown (also spelled York Town). A second British Army institute, the Staff College, Camberley, Staff College, opened to the east in 1862, and the nucleus of Cambridge Town was laid out at around the same time. The two settlements grew together over the following decades and are now contiguous. Much of the town centre dates from the late 20th and e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bracknell
Bracknell () is a town and civil parish in Berkshire, England, the westernmost area within the Greater London Built-up Area, Greater London Urban Area and the administrative centre of the borough of Bracknell Forest. It lies to the east of Reading, Berkshire, Reading, south of Maidenhead, southwest of Windsor, Berkshire, Windsor and west of central London. Bracknell is the third largest town in Berkshire. The name Bracknell is derived from the Saxon ''Braccan Heal'' or ''Braccan Heale'', first recorded in a charter boundary of 942 AD. In the Middle Ages, Bracknell developed into two small market villages, Old Bracknoll and New Bracknoll. By the 19th century, the two Bracknells had combined into a single market town, which was an important centre of local industry, most notably for its brick trade. In the 20th century, Bracknell experienced a period of rapid growth after it was declared a New towns in the United Kingdom, New Town. Planned at first for a population of 25,000, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wokingham
Wokingham ( ) is a market town and civil parish in Berkshire, England. It is the main administrative centre of the wider Borough of Wokingham. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 38,284 and the wider built-up area had a population of 50,325. History Wokingham means 'Wocca's people's home'. Wocca was apparently a Anglo-Saxons, Saxon chieftain who may also have owned lands at Wokefield in Berkshire and Woking in Surrey. In Victorian times, the name became corrupted to ''Oakingham'', and consequently the acorn with oak leaves is the town's heraldic charge, granted in the 19th century. Geologically, Wokingham sits at the northern end of the Bagshot Formation, overlying London clay, suggesting a prehistorical origin as a marine estuary. The courts of Windsor Forest were held at Wokingham and the town had the right to hold a market from 1219. The Bishop of Salisbury was largely responsible for the growth of the town during this period. He set out roads and plots ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandhurst, Berkshire
Sandhurst is a town and civil parish in the Bracknell Forest borough in Berkshire, England. It is in the south eastern corner of Berkshire, and is situated west-southwest of London, north west of Camberley and south of Bracknell. Sandhurst is known worldwide as the location of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (often referred to simply as "Sandhurst", "The Academy" or "The RMA"). Despite its close proximity to Camberley, Sandhurst is also home to a large and well-known out-of-town mercantile development. The site is named "The Meadows" and has a Tesco Extra superstore and a Marks & Spencer, two of the largest in the country. A large Next clothing and homeware store is open on the site of the old Homebase. Geography Sandhurst is in South East England near the junction of Berkshire, Hampshire, and Surrey. The town has four main districts, from west to east: Little Sandhurst, Sandhurst (central), and College Town, with Owlsmoor to the northeast. North of the town are Ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broadmoor Sirens
The Broadmoor Sirens were a series of thirteen warning sirens (Secomak CS8) based in towns and villages surrounding Broadmoor Hospital in Crowthorne, Berkshire, England. They were first installed in 1952 and are based on air raid sirens with the intention of warning residents living near the high-security psychiatric hospital of an escaped patient, with special shutters fitted to allow for a Hi-Lo tone to differentiate them from air-raid sirens. History The Broadmoor Sirens were installed in 1952 after John Straffen escaped from Broadmoor and murdered a child in Farley Hill, Berkshire. They are similar to air-raid sirens but employ shutters to produce an alternating "high – low" warning tone. More sirens were added in the 1960s after discussions in the House of Commons raised the issue that the sirens' radius was insufficient for nearby towns such as Camberley and Wokingham. The thirteen sirens were created with the intention of warning residents in surrounding towns and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Straffen
John Thomas Straffen (27 February 1930 – 19 November 2007) was an English serial killer who committed the murder of three preadolescence, prepubescent girls between the ages of five and nine in the counties of Somerset and Berkshire, England, between 1951 and 1952. All three of Straffen's victims were murdered by Strangling, strangulation. His first two victims were murdered in Bath, Somerset, in the summer of 1951. Arrested shortly after the murder of his second victim, Straffen denied any Sexual desire, sexual or Sadistic personality disorder, sadistic Motive (law), motive for the murders, which he insisted he had committed to simply "annoy" the police, whom he blamed for most of his problems. Tried before Roland Oliver (judge), Mr. Justice Oliver at Taunton Assizes in October 1951, Straffen was found unfit to plead on the grounds of diminished responsibility and committed to indefinite detention within Broadmoor Hospital. He briefly escaped from this facility in April 1952 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
