#brockhall

In the events of Mossflower, Brockhall is well known (to the woodlanders), while Salamandastron is ‘hidden’ and more of a place that needs to be found.

In later books though, Brockhall has faded from memory and become a hidden ruin, whereas Salamandastron is a well known and travelled to location.

Abbot Apodemus: Just how important is this 'Brockhall'?

Malbun: It is extremely important to our abbey archives!

Hi Folks, we have some major updates on both Florence, the moral defective who escaped Brockhall asylum and also the desecrated graves and memorial stones tossed behind the grave diggers shed. 

Thanks to the great community of Old Langho and Brockhall Village who came together and helped. Through the power of people we have managed to make a change. 

Learn the incredibly happy results and tragic results from what we learned in my last video, today I bring you the updates. 

I dedicate this video and my previous Brockhall Asylum (hospital) video to the memories of: 

Florence McLellan (Diane) Norman - Florence's Son Glyn - Florences Son The Hitman Family Each and every former patient buried at the Brockhall Asylum Cemetery. 

 Brockhall Asylum was opened in 1904 and was  originally built to house habitual drunks, and initially housed no more than 200 women. Then in the 1920’s the Asylum expanded massively, and formally became an institution for mental and moral defectives holding up to 2200 patients. Brockhall actually closed as an institution in 1992. 

Residents who had not been resettled into community went to live at its neighbour, Calderstones Asylum (or hospital) Just like Calderstones, both mental and moral defectives could spend their entire  lives at Brockhall Asylum, therefore it too would require its very own cemetery. So in 1939 the Brockhall Asylum decided to establish their own private cemetery in a part of the Hospital  grounds which was consecrated by the Bishop of Blackburn and sits alongside the St Leonard's Church of England Cemetery. 

When a patient died in the Asylum, their relatives were always contacted to take the body away for burial at home. If there was no response, the hospital took over the responsibility. The body used to be buried here in the churchyard of St Leonard's in 1932 this changed, The church and parish were concerned that the "respectable" dead of the parish would be overwhelmed by the asylum dead and decided not to accept any more patients who had sadly passed into their cemetery. As a result, the asylum had to fence off the field adjoining the churchyard to use for hospital burials. For the next 60 years some forgotten and abandoned person was interred, in an unmarked grave, more or less each month, in a field over the back. 

Hidden and shamed once more, with a final blow, even in death, both by society, and the parish church. When the cemetery first opened, Three days later, 47-year old, Florence Craig became the first person to be buried in the Cemetery, some of those who had died at Brockhall before 1939 were also buried in the Calderstones Cemetery. The Cemetery is divided by religious association into three distinct sections: the Church of England section with 399 burials, Roman Catholic section with 123 burials, and the the Other faiths section with 55 burials, a total of 587. 71 of the people buried in the Cemetery were under 16 There are some minor discrepancies in the actual totals, with two relatives who were not patients of the Hospital, actually being buried alongside their deceased children here in this cemetery. 

Hi Folks, join me as we learn the history, the travesty and the Journey of a young woman, who’s only crime was to have a child out of wedlock, thus becoming what was known at the time, as a Moral Defective, which resulted in not only her abandonment, at one of Lancashire’s most notorious asylums and becoming estranged from her family for 60 years, but the loss of her child, who was taken from her and adopted, never knowing his real mothers name, or the terrifying and life long journey she endured, and that still haunts her from BROCKHALL ASYLUM.

Brockhall Asylum was opened in 1904 and was  originally built to house habitual drunks, and initially housed no more than 200 women. Then in the 1920’s the Asylum expanded massively, and formally became an institution for mental and moral defectives holding up to 2200 patients. Brockhall actually closed as an institution in 1992. 

Residents who had not been resettled into community went to live at its neighbour, Calderstones Asylum (or hospital) Just like Calderstones, both mental and moral defectives could spend their entire  lives at Brockhall Asylum, therefore it too would require its very own cemetery. So in 1939 the Brockhall Asylum decided to establish their own private cemetery in a part of the Hospital  grounds which was consecrated by the Bishop of Blackburn and sits alongside the St Leonard's Church of England Cemetery. 

When a patient died in the Asylum, their relatives were always contacted to take the body away for burial at home. If there was no response, the hospital took over the responsibility. The body used to be buried here in the churchyard of St Leonard's in 1932 this changed, The church and parish were concerned that the "respectable" dead of the parish would be overwhelmed by the asylum dead and decided not to accept any more patients who had sadly passed into their cemetery. As a result, the asylum had to fence off the field adjoining the churchyard to use for hospital burials. For the next 60 years some forgotten and abandoned person was interred, in an unmarked grave, more or less each month, in a field over the back. 

Hidden and shamed once more, with a final blow, even in death, both by society, and the parish church. When the cemetery first opened, Three days later, 47-year old, Florence Craig became the first person to be buried in the Cemetery, some of those who had died at Brockhall before 1939 were also buried in the Calderstones Cemetery. 

The Cemetery is divided by religious association into three distinct sections: the Church of England section with 399 burials, Roman Catholic section with 123 burials, and the the Other faiths section with 55 burials, a total of 587. 71 of the people buried in the Cemetery were under 16 There are some minor discrepancies in the actual totals, with two relatives who were not patients of the Hospital, actually being buried alongside their deceased children here in this cemetery.