Barrow Mental Hospital, Bristol

24th December 2007

Barrow mental hospital was completed in 1937 although it was requisitioned as a naval hospital in the Second World War, it reverted to its planned function in 1947.
It closed in the summer of 06. In December 2005 Barrow was branded the hospital dirtiest in the country when inspectors examined medical equipment, beds, sinks, bedpans and toilets in 98 hospitals.

Inspectors arrived at Barrow Hospital unannounced to find floors marked with cigarette burns, coffee cup stains on a table, walls with extensive graffiti, urine stains around a toilet, mildew and stains from bodily fluids on the bottom of a hoist chair.

Two of the hospital's three wards were closed and the services temporarily transferred to Southmead Hospital.

This is some photos of the Southside block.

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