EPW005257 ENGLAND (1921). Leicester Frith Institution, Leicester, 1921

Are there patients strolling on the lawn?

In the First World War this house was taken over as a hospital treating patients with neurasthenia (mental exhaustion). In 1920 the house was bought from the Ministry of Pensions for use as a 'home for the mentally defective'.

Staring in a line!

Later to be known as Glen Frith which was a mental institution/hospital.

Here's a picture of the building today.

Built in 1870 for Thomas Swift Taylor a Leicester hosiery manufacturer and former deputy sherrif of Leicestershire. There had been a house on the site since at least the 17th century. At the time of this picture it was most likely in use as a hospital for shell shocked servicemen of the First World War. Later it became a mental health hospital and still stands today in the grounds of what is now Glenfield Hospital, in use as administrative offices. Behind the house the fields are now a housing estate although some scattered farm buildings remain as at the top of the picture.