Reference number
  • CASSEL
Level of description
  • Collection
Date(s)
  • 1920-1995
Extent and medium
  • Approx 150 boxes
Category
  • Hospital
Scope and content
  • ┆Papers of Cassel Hospital including management and finance records, daily hospital administration, staff and patient records, records of the building and advocacy, research and partnership materials.
History
  • Established in 1919 as ‘The Cassel Hospital for Functional Nervous Disorders’, The Cassel Hospital opened in May 1921 at Swaylands in Kent. In 1940 Swaylands was requisitioned by the army and the Hospital was evacuated to temporary premises at Ash Hall in Stoke-on-Trent. In 1947 the Hospital relocated again to Morgan House (aka. Lawrence Hall), Ham Common. In 1946 Medical Director Tom Main, and Matron Doreen Weddell transformed the hospital into a therapeutic community. Cassel became a leading centre for practice, training and experiment in the psychotherapeutic treatment of neuroses. The hospital became part of the NHS in 1948, and later fell under the remit of NHS West London Trust.
Name of creator(s)
  • Cassel Hospital
Access status
  • OPEN
Language
  • ENG
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
  • Transferred by Cassel Hospital to the Planned Environment Therapy Trust between 1995-2006. Ownership transferred to the Mulberry Bush Organisation when the Trust folded in 2018.