St George's Hospital was a mental health facility in

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History

The facility was designed by Henry Welch, the County Surveyor of

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, using a corridor plan layout and opened as the Northumberland County Pauper Lunatic Asylum on 16 March 1859. It was extended in the 1880s and three villas were added in the 1890s, before it was renamed St George's Hospital in the 1930s. A German

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bomber crash landed in the hospital grounds in 1942 during the

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. The hospital joined the

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in 1948. After the introduction of

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in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in 2006. Many of the old buildings have been demolished and the site has been developed for residential use as "Saint George". Meanwhile, a small modern health facility, which was named St George's Park was built slightly to the north of the old hospital.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Saint George's Hospital, Morpeth Hospitals in Northumberland Defunct hospitals in England Former psychiatric hospitals in England Hospital buildings completed in 1859 Hospitals established in 1859 1859 establishments in England 2006 disestablishments in England Hospitals disestablished in 2006