It Made Me Sad To Think How They Got It So Wrong!
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- Опубліковано 13 жов 2024
- My first home was in a converted mental asylum. I take a trip down memory lane revisiting the old hospital and learn about it's history before it became apartments.
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Your best vlog so far. I've lived in Sheffield all my 62 years and never seen either of those 2 buildings. Thanks for sharing
Glad you enjoyed it, thankyou x
You and your brother have a gift for telling the story.
Your fantastic at this.
Thankyou x
@@BeckandBeyond Looking forward to your Christmas vlogs.
1. Decorate your home.
2. Festive treats in kitchen
3. Festive shopping and where you go for each member of family.
Have to stop writing your scripts.
This is a very emotional one to watch. A wonderful place for your first apartment and lovely that you researched all the history, wnich is very sad.
Lovely building, like my old school, I recently found a note mum had written to me in my box of sentimental things, lost her 2020, made me cry, so took pic of it and put it in a frame, I kept a lot of her things that I'd sent her for mothers day while in care home, take care ❤
AH that must have been lovely to find that 😘 x
@@BeckandBeyond I didn't no I had it, yes lovely surprise x
You do such interesting and informative vlogs. So good Becky. Have a good weekend x
Thankyou!! You have a great weekend too, I'm decorating so not so much 🤣 x
I looked after a old lady who was in middlewood all her life for reporting her brother for abusing her . They didn't believe her and locked her up . She used to relive that every night she went to bed. Her name was rowena, what a waste of a life .
WOW absolutely stunning video vlog . Your best by far . You can't beat memories and history of years long ago . Well done for putting this memorable video out
Thankyou so much!
There was a Science fiction tv series filmed within those grounds! "The Last Train"
Hi, becky Thank you for taking me back in time even though it was a sad time. My sister was in this hospital for postnatal depression in the 70s, and then I went to spend a day there when I was a mental health nurse in the 80s. I remember being told that staff got married in that church.
I do enjoy your channel ! Keep up the good work becky !❤
Thankyou so much x
OMG ive got a memory box also, still have my scout cub uniform (which still fits kind off) photos and my first job woolworths tie's and badges, that's why i love xmas music, it brings me right back to my woolies days. X
Hey Beck, what an amazing building, if only walls could talk, the stories they could tell. Very sad to hear as to why some were deemed insane 😢. Some very funny, bringing bugs home 😂... thank you for another great vlog, this is one of my faves. You have a very soothing voice 😌. Take care and look forward to the next ❤ x
Thankyou so much
That was really interesting.
Thankyou x
Found this really interesting. Your narration and introduction to the video was excellent. The buildings were absolutely stunning, but such a shame about the church. I did an 8 week placement in my nurse training in a Psychiatric Ward where Electro Convulsive Therapy was performed, it was awful to observe. Excellent video Beck
Thankyou I'm glad you enjoyed it.
It must have been awful to observe that, I just can't imagine what it was like.x
Your best vlog yet Becky and beautifully put together. Thank goodness its still not an asylum, i forget to take bins out last week.😱xx
Thankyou x
Iv watch this blog and I loved it I'm not from Sheffield but I still find it interesting you tell it so lovingly keep them coming becky and don't for get you said you coming to Barnsley to do a blog x😊
Thankyou glad you enjoyed!! I will come to Barnsley I promise 😁
A very heart rendering blog. ❤
What a Lovely building.
Beautiful Memories to treasure💎xx
Thankyou glad you enjoyed it! x
I was an housekeeper in a young Adult mental hospital, and I can tell you some of the young were over educated and just lost it parents pushing them to the brink, some were just like you said wanting a free bed 3 meals a day (loners) some just knew how the system worked to get a place from council, but some very sad which I can not talk about would make you cry for them so so sad, and funny how most of them wanted to talk to us and not the nursing staff,as scary as the job was I do miss it now I'm retired ,thank you for showing us around such a beautiful building xx
Gosh I can imagine you saw and experienced some sights!
Thank you for sharing, if definitely did have a stigma to it so sad😢
Wasn't it! X
That was an amazing vlog, Becky, my wife and I found the historical facts about the mental hospital both fascinating and sad at the same time. There are many symptoms covered that would encompass most of our MP's
Glad you both enjoyed it!
I loved the light bulb moment when you realized that the church seated people.. lol.. It would have been even funnier if you said humans. lol.
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About 40 years ago I accompanied two bricklayer mates of mine to Epsom Mental Asylum to price-up a job to install an RSJ in the X-Ray theatre.
It was a huge, and infamous, Victorian mental asylum in Surrey.
It really was the strangest place.
A huge red-brick Gothic pile just like this.
I won't go into details of what we saw there as we walked around the endless labyrinthine corridors, suffice to say it was incredibly sad 😢
I can only imagine! X
I had a great Aunt who spent time at Middlewood Hospital as it was known then. I believe it was due to depression. I went in to work there years later, it’s latter years actually as it closed down around 1989 I think. Some of the residents/patients were rehomed into a facility behind Ecclesall Road in Sheffield, called Anchor House. I worked there for a short while too. We got to read some of the back history of the residents and the reasons behind their admittance to the hospital in the first place. So sad, often they would enter of sound mind and the shear length of stay lead them to insanity.
Wow really! X
@@BeckandBeyond yeah really. Some really sad cases. They became institutionalised.
Where is the information you were reading in your vlog, I’d like to read that?
Fantastic video. Reminds me I need to get the old photos when I visit my parents. It's a nice idea to keep a memory box in a suitcase. Great content and interesting makes you think we are luckier to live in this era....
oh gosh aren't we lucky!
I worked in mental health for 17 years (just retired 🍾) it’s come a long way.
Its beautiful building Becky.
Thank goodness it's come a long way! I take my hat off to you doing that for a job, I couldn't!!
I was totally captavated ( i am though in all your vlogs!) Very informative & very sad and to think this went on in many towns and cities back then ,it makes you feel as if you want to hug the families whos loved ones went through this😢 you told it with compasion and you have a great way with words, also great to see how your life has evolved, your vlogs vary & thats what grips me to not even miss one of them( dont tell james but i think you have pulled it off & you are pipping him at the post for originality! But i still love his vlogs) x
Thankyou I appreciate that! (And I will definitely tell James 🤣😜) x
Really interesting vlog. I work in a local hospice & it used to be an orphanage. If i was any good at vloging, i would share 😂😂😂 some of the stories, especially on a night shift 😬 x
Oh gosh I can only imagine!! Get vlogging!! X
Hi Beck's, great video well narrated. Mental health issues are on the rise more than ever especially with the younger generation. Keep up the good work.
It seems so doesn't it, although I'm not surprised with all the stresses today!
So I'm not alone collecting memories in a shoe box and suitcase! Had a little tear at your intro 😊
Haha no me too! X
Very interesting, loved this tour of your old apartment and the history of the mental hospital. I do genealogy and have found in reports that women would be in a mental institution due to post partum depression. Thank you for sharing this story.
Gosh it's so sad 😞. X
That was really lovely to see and listen to , thank you
Like you I have boxes of beautiful things that will probably be skipped when I’ve moved on from this mortal coil 🥴😂
I have been trying to sort stuff out while resting with a fractured ankle …..
Came across pics of my first studio flat at 17 yrs old
Beautiful building and Happy memories of the 60s
As long as they bring us happiness now, does it matter what happens to them when we are gone! I hope your ankle gets better soon. X
Great video Becky, interesting and powerful. Some lovely scenery in that vlog. Take care …. Smithy
Thankyou Smithy x
Interesting blog thanks
Aw that was good, nothing like a bit nostalgia, everyone should have a memory box too
Absolutely! X
Nostalgia is a very powerful emotion.
Isn't it! X
Great video so relaxing and emotional
Thankyou x
What an amazing building. We have a few in Hertfordshire too. Shenley is near to me and I live in Leavesden which is now a huge set of flats.
Great video Becks.
I think they've all pretty much become flats now haven't they! x
Very interesting vlog Becky.
I like your eyeshadow xx
Thankyou, It's Mac I think I had on that day 'Wedge'
Hi Rebecca,
You’re making some nice videos now! You’re developing such a professional skill set. Lovely narration and editing and only you could turn such a subject into a fascinating and interesting article. I also remember the saying about Middlewood. It was quite commonplace when I was in my younger days to hear my Father and many others coin the phrase “If you’re not careful they’ll send you to Middlewood”.I thank your viewer for reminding me, it brings back my own memories. If you carry on with your excellent work you’ll become a well known UA-camr, you never know you may even be invited on TV it’s been known!🥰😊👌🏻👍🏻
Best wishes,
J&M XX
Thankyou so much! I hope you are both well x
Very interesting 😊
Thankyou x
OMG I couldn't live in a place which had witnessed so much despair and tragedy
Brilliant Rebecca simply brilliant !
Thankyou xx
What an interesting vlog , Becky. I trained and worked at a similar large hospital in the 70's , and sadly some of the causes of the patients admission were quite bizarre. I did have an interview at Middlewood . I didn't get the job but as it closed in the 90,s , maybe it was for the best ! Thanks for posting.
Gosh I can imagine working I such a hospital is very stressful!
@BeckandBeyond It had it's moments. I think working in mental health today is a lot more stressful though.
Lovely video Becky keep up the good content ❤
Thankyou x
Brilliant vlog Rebecca.Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it! X
Wonderful. Always interesting ❤❤
Thankyou so much x
Very sentimental video. Yes you and James do narrate good stories, I think it’s a Yorkshire trait as I’m from Yorkshire and people tell me I tell a good story. Anyway I used to have a friend who was a male nurse at Middlewood Hospital in the 1970s. And not my parents but others used to threaten their kids with sending them to Middlewood if they didn’t behave. Intriguing video, thanks Rebecca.
Thankyou, yep it must be a yorkshire thing haha! Glad you enjoyed the video. X
My son lives in Wadsley, were meeting tomorrow to go and have a look around, can't wait but such sad times back then x
Ah have a lovely day with your son x
Hiya, do you think a few more Hashtag variations would get this video where it should be? Really does deserve it!
Possibly, it isn't going as well as others. Maybe it's my thumbnail 🤔
@@BeckandBeyond It will get there!
Very interesting knew about fossil forest but never seen any info about it don’t live far away will be having a look at that also loved the idea of having a memory box keep up the good work
Thankyou x
Thank you for a very interesting video. ❤🇦🇺
Glad you enjoyed it x
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Thank you!!
that was an amazing video that l really enjoyed watching thank you for for taking the tame to make it. FYl a plate layer was a railway job to do with track maintenance
Glad you enjoyed it! really I would never have related a platelayer to the railways thankyou for the info. x
Good, enjoyed it. Can relate to it.
Glad you enjoyed it! x
Great video Becks. "You need sending to Middlewood", was a common saying here in South Yorkshire, when someone did, or said something really stupid.
Ah is that right!! I never heard that before x
@BeckandBeyond Absolutely true, Becks. There were a few asylums around, but Middlewood was always the one people got taunted with. Back then, it was in the old West Riding of Yorkshire.
Very warm hearted woman collecting photographs I loved it at my nans looking through. You look like a porcelain doll
Thankyou x
Fascinating Beck. There must be loads of asylums & mental hospitals in the uk that have been converted to dwellings. One near me. Stanley Royd in wakeffield xxx
Yes the all seemed to be stunning buildings which are great for conversions
Hi becky what a shame about the church grade two listed too good video becky thanks xx❤
Isn't it!! It really should be renovated. X
Becks, so touching, I lived in South Tyneside, there was a mental Asylum called Monkton and Prudhoe hospital. Some of the inmates often walked the streets and people were scared without knowing their problems, such a shame .That was a great vlog.x
It's so sad! X
I live in south tyneside you are right one was called Cherry Knowles
@@carolgledhill64well I belonged Hebburn and as a young lad was often in Monkton Village so knew all about the mental hospital 19:43 hospital
You belong Hebburn?
Went to St Aloysius school and then St Josephs
Oh,if those walls could talk.Brilliant Rebecca-some of the reasons were funny, but sadly, so many were sad.Victorian standards!!!!Sadly, there is still a stigma around mental health today.Memory boxes are lovely to go through,to share and even pass some things on.Memories are special,keep on making memories too with Edward as he grows,family and friends.Thank you 🎉
My mum has always kept bits which I love to look at so I do hope Edward enjoys seeing them.too. x
I love Georgian, thing is some stunning flats but the horrendous charges great video becks nice places in Sheffield.
Not too much cottages villages ?❤❤❤❤❤❤
Georgian is my absolute favourite, I've always wanted a Georgian Villa x
❤the building of the old style mental asylum pity they introduced care in the community where nobody wants them anywhere near them such a shame for the patients
Absolutely
I worked only for 8 weeks as part of my general nurse training .... at st Edward's near leek in Staffordshire. It was an old 18800s. You could tell it was a mental hospital as soon as you walked in . There was a lady who was in there . Shes simply ran away from home aged 16.. ended up there .. look up st edwards. Near leek .. . Cheddleton i think .. mae into flats now . Like many around the country.. lovely grounds etc..
I can't even imagine what it must be like! I will have a look. x
I've just discovered there's a mental health museum in Wakefield.. I've just been reading about st edwards.. it closed in 2002. I was there in 1986
If those walls could talk eh. Very interesting vlog.
Haha absolutely! x
Thanks, Becks!
You appear to be a polar opposite to James; you like books and literature and he likes being a binge-drinking Prole! And for that reason I like both of your vlogs! 😮
It’s a great pity that a lot of the old buildings and manor houses in England were pulled down after the war because the country had no money to renovate! Now we have to put up with many of these shoddy new housing estates! Xxxooxx!
Haha although polar opposits on our vlogs we are very alike I love a drink and he loves a book (he is so well read) Its funny what we gravitate towards for our vlogs!
We've got Menston Hospital or Stanley ryords as old mental institutions stigma barbaric, I've known people whose parents have had electric shock treatment. In first world war before we knew of shell shock, etc,as certain punishments, some soldiers we strapped to canons, I'm told or informed. A distant relative either went through it or knew someone I'd have to research further, by any chance you didn't find that one yard high hairstyle photo..
It doesn't bear thinking about what some people when through! I didn't find it although I didn't go through all the photos I need to get them into some order as they are currently just in a big pile.
Thank you, that was very interesting. I love exploring churches, it's a shame that one is being left to deteriorate. I came across a big old Rectory once which was being swallowed by nature. I hoped someone would rescue it. I went back twice more and the third time it was barely visible. ilona.
Thankyou x
Brilliant! That place has got movie presence!
It is fab isn't it!
Amazing, I was at that same concert for Michael Jackson ❤
Really!? Wasn't it amazing one of my best days xx
@@BeckandBeyond unbelievable, took hours to get out of Leeds and back to Newcastle but Brilliant x
Maybe I escaped the old institution as I took my granddads old radio apart and when he got home he was livid so he asked my mother why I did it. And she told him, that I was trying to find the man inside the radio. lol. I actually thought that the guy speaking on the radio was literally inside the radio??? lol. My grandfather quickly turned around and told my mother, don't worry about paying for him to go to university because he won't be going there. lol. So my weakness was clearly my intellect. lol. Sign me up for electric shock treatment as my grandfather really wanted to fry my brains after he seen what I did to his precious radio.
Oh no bless you!! That's a brilliant story I am absolutely certain you are not on your own thinking there were little people in the radio or TV!
@@BeckandBeyond lol, I still can't find him "like where did he go? I hope he's okay. lol. The radio must not be such a safe haven for people after all.
My mother worked their and we have some great and weird stories about it, also best place for conkers
I can imagine the stories are crazy! Did she ever say anything about tunnels under the building, I heard it was like a labyrinth down there. X
Yes and she also told me about the cells with straps in for the more challenging patients, my Grandad also died there in 1988 due to mental health.
Also love the nostalgic stories of Sheffield, keep up the good work. I’ve always been fascinated by the Stocksbridge monk
Oh no it sounds like torture cells 😢
Sorry to hear about you Grandad. X
Thankyou. Oo I haven't heard about the monk I shall look that up!
I grew up in a little market town a couple of miles away Cheddleton & a similar mental hospital - buck your ideas up or youll end up in Ched it seemed a very scarey spooky place ect used to be given without muscle relaxants ...did you ever watch the film One flew over the cuckoos nest ? It was similar to some of the stories I heard anyway I was about 17 & I went thir for a job interview as a male nurse, on the ward later a man came running up & said the train the train is coming he was in a right panic & I really wanted to say look there is no train you are safe its OK but the male nurse just laughed & said Oh its a bit late today isnt it ? As a young naive youth I couldnt get out of there quick enough
The place is now quite posh flats but to those who remember it the stigma remains
I don't blame you getting out asap, not an easy job at all! x
Platelayers are those involved in actually constructing and laying the rails for railways.
I had no idea!
Me and my younger brother grew up on Parson Cross in the 50's. When we were acting up my mum used to scream something on the lines of " If you two don't behave I'm gonna end up in f***ing Middlewood"
Haha I hope you listened to her!! X
My great grandfather was in an asylum in Sedgefield for 40years
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I saw you had a Micheal Jackson ticket in your hand was it at Wembley?. Myself went to Wembley and thought it was incredible 👏👏 what did you think? X
I saw him in Leeds at Roundhay Park it was one of my best days every I loved him so much! X
Yes he was great. A very sad ending for him in his life though unfortunately 😢😢 x
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Very enjoyable viewing Becks, Interesting that you have looked at the history of the asylum. Though id of used the phrase unbelieveable as oppose to funny for the very strange unusual reasons for some people being admitted.
Oh regarding the lady admitted and described as being an idiot from birth, look at the woke generation and the absolute insanity being spouted by some individuals. Theres not enough asylums to accommodate them all.
You're absolutely right!
The first 1:30 min is a format maybe worth exploring. It gave a nice vibe, tainted with nostigla.
Thankyou, I do enjoy filming and editing sections like this. X
@@BeckandBeyond No worries..remember, don't believe your own bullshit.
Hull😂
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My mum threw all my keepsakes away….
Oh no that's such a shame 😞
@@BeckandBeyond some mothers have this attitude.. they’re not all wonderful..I should have binned her stuff..mind I only had a few broken things to my name..
You can't fit all that memorabilia in a coffin so GET RID
Why?
@@simoncockcroft6315because I will say it s l o w l y just for YOU you can't fit it all into your coffin so GET RID
What’s your effing problem ??
Fook off and try another channel to aggravate people. Bloody looser. ✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻
You can't take it with you, but while ever it brings joy then why not!
@@BeckandBeyond this is my point, anything that brings joy is to be embraced. Not enough joy in the world x
A fascinating tale Becky. 🥸
I lived in Hebburn, Tyneside, used to go to Monkton Village on the way through to Primrose Park,Jarrow. Loved it,often went to NELSON PUB GARDENS with parents on sunny days.
Anybody remember this ?