hospitals

In the early 1900’s Rainhill County Lunatic Asylum had over 3000 patients, reputedly making it the largest asylum in Europe.  It was demolished in the early 1990’s and subsequently replaced by the Reeve Retirement Village and a housing development. At the time of the First World War, Rainhill Asylum was extremely over-crowded with 2395 patients. 110 […]

Before it was established as the first WW1 hospital in Rainhill, ‘The Tower’ was a private residence.  It was built in 1880 for Henry Baxter and his family. In January 1914, a branch of St John’s Ambulance Association was established at a public meeting in St Helens. Voluntary Aid Detachments 42 and 44 were formed