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    Powick Hospital, which opened in 1847 was a psychiatric facility located on 552 acres (223 ha) outside the village of Powick, near Malvern, Worcestershire...
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    Powick is a village and civil parish in the Malvern Hills district of Worcestershire, England, located two miles south of the city of Worcester and four...
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    only existing asylum, Powick Hospital near Malvern and to serve the northern part of the county. It was used as a military hospital during the First World...
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    Sandison, who developed its use in psychotherapy. Sandison's treatment at Powick Hospital in England received international acclaim. Hofmann continued to take...
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  • his LSD work was mainly carried out during the 1950s and '60s at Powick Hospital, a large psychiatric facility near Malvern, Worcestershire, after which...
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    Sandison in 1952, at Powick Hospital, Worcestershire. A special LSD unit was set up in 1958. After Sandison left the hospital in 1964, medical superintendent...
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    psychiatrists, such as Ronald A. Sandison, who pioneered its use at Powick Hospital in England, believed LSD was especially useful at helping patients...
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    several other psychiatric hospitals made similar allegations. A World in Action television documentary about Powick Hospital, Ward F13, exposed undignified...
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    Warstone Lane Cemetery, Birmingham, and insane asylums in Lincoln and Powick Hospital in Worcester. Hamilton came to North America in 1850. A single source...
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    government funding for the UK's first purpose-built LSD therapy centre at Powick Hospital. Roberts, Andy (2008). Albion Dreaming: A popular history of LSD in...
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  • Charles Handy, Bus Driver Powick Hospital, Worcester and District Health Authority. Samuel Hanna, Head Porter, Belfast City Hospital. Winifred Stuart Hardie...
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  • Surrey Constabulary. Gwendoline Iris, Mrs Kite, lately Ward Sister, Powick Hospital, Worcester and District Health Authority. Alexander Wilson Lam Be,...
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    is widely misattributed to Wilde. Douglas was born at Ham Hill House in Powick, Worcestershire, the third son of John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry...
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    by the Royalists. Parliament briefly retook the city after the Battle of Powick Bridge of September 1642, and ransacked the cathedral, where stained glass...
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    This stone originally marked the boundary between the Manors of Leigh and Powick. It was already old in 1584 when a breathless Elizabethan gentleman noted...
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    2017. The unique[citation needed] Victorian corrugated iron isolation hospital was demolished on 24 October 2006. Tenbury Wells lies on the south bank...
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  • Worcestershire County Asylum (Powick), 1847 Second Worcestershire County Asylum (Bromsgrove), 1907 "New" mental hospitals established later by Middlesex...
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    London to have an infected tonsil removed. The night after his return from hospital to his London house he wrote down the melody that would become the first...
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    when it was rerouted. A4021 Unused Ran from A440 (now B4211) in Rhydd to Powick (became the B4424 at the same time the A440 became the B4211). A4022 Unused...
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  • 1984, p. 67, and England censuses 1871, 1881). George Jenkins lived in Powick and was recorded as Clerk at the Asylum in the national censuses of 1871...
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  • CE First School, Pinvin Pitmaston Primary School, Worcester Powick CE Primary School, Powick Red Hill CE Primary School, Worcester Romsley St Kenelm's CE...
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    county. In 1642 the first major skirmish of the Civil War, the Battle of Powick Bridge, on the River Teme close to Worcester, occurred when a cavalry troop...
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  • -October 2004) was an Irish painter and sculptor. Cherith Boyd was born in Powick, Worcestershire to Lilian Goodwin, a nurse, and Arthur Boyd a psychiatric...
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  • fought one of the first serious actions of the war on 23 September 1642 at Powick Bridge, south of Worcester. Afterwards, the city was plundered by the Parliamentarian...
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  • Croome, Holdfast, Kempsey, Little Malvern, Longdon, Madresfield, Newland, Powick, Queenhill, Ripple, Severn Stoke, Upton upon Severn, Welland. West Bromwich...
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  • - Royalist and Parliamentarian fight near Yeovil ended a draw Battle of Powick Bridge 21 September - Royalists defeat the Parliamentarians. Battle of Lleida...
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    by Haddon Brothers.* Malvern has a community hospital on Worcester Road in Malvern Link. The hospital was constructed on the grounds of a former independent...
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    involved in the development of Malvern as a spa town. Wall was born at Powick, Worcestershire, in 1708, was the son of John Wall, a tradesman of Worcester...
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    briefly retook the city for Parliament after the skirmish at the Battle of Powick Bridge, the first engagement of the war. Parliamentary troops then ransacked...
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    which can be seen today, and ruined St Lawrence Parish Church, the old hospital church of St Nicholas (which was never rebuilt), and many domestic buildings...
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